Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana both used to be Labour Party MPs. Now they’ve left Labour and are proposing to set up a new party with socalist values. As Sultana points out , “Just 50 families now own more wealth than half the UK population” The BiBiC (geddit?) paid for a documentary on doctors […]
July, 2025
Politicians who wept in public – and did it work?
Rachel Reeves wept in public yesterday.Has it softened those hearts which were stony because they saw the Labour Party turning its back on the weakest in society? So was it a case of real tears of compassion or the weak sniffling of a woman out of her depth? She’s not the first to […]
Monarchs and animals and money
The British government is planning to abandon its custom of having the current monarch’s head on English coins and replace it with English landscapes and other less-directly monarchical scenes. I remember English coins. There was of course Queen Elizabeth II herself, looking like a young woman even while she was actually deep into middle age. […]
Is it wrong to attack mass murderers?
Try this. As the Germans incinerate Jews, a man at Hyde Park corner gets on a soap box and shouts “Death, death to the Nazi regime!” Do the police rush to arrest him – after all, he’s calling for violence against German soldiers. I think you could safely say he’d get a free pass […]