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It started with stamps. My interest in the ‘German Democratic Republic’ began when a very nice lady called Frieda, who lived on our road when I...
In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 film adaptation of ‘ The 39 Steps ’, Richard Hannay (played by Robert Donat) tells seemingly ‘respectable...
‘Listen to the experts.’ ‘Follow the science.’ Two phrases we’ve heard ad nauseam in 2020. But who qualifies as an ‘expert’ or...
There’s a great expression in English: ‘It's just not cricket’. It originated from the days when there was a code of decency in British public...
Don’t say you weren’t warned. While ‘centrist’ neo-liberals and faux-progressives lauded turbo-globalisation in the nineties, one...
Could our freedom to travel, attend sports, music and cultural events, or even go to the shops, be dependent on having had a Covid-19/coronavirus...
It was more than just a shop. Debenhams was part of British life. Part of the national fabric. It was a Clark who started it. William Clark (no...
England officially moves out of a ‘national lockdown’ next week, but with 98 percent of the population placed in the toughest Tiers 2 and 3,...
Compare and contrast. On the issue of whether Britain should leave the EU we’ve had: In fact, for the period May 2016 until March 2020, it seemed...
Imagine only being able to go to a pop concert if you had an app on your smartphone proving that you’d had a Covid vaccine or had tested negative...
It’s probably the understatement of the year to say that Donald Trump is a polarising figure. Rather like Marmite, people tend to love him or loathe...
The phrase ‘smoking gun’ is oft-overused, but it is surely appropriate in relation to the report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the UK...
Almost as soon as the terrible news came out on 17th July 2014 that a passenger airliner had come down over eastern Ukraine with the loss of all 298...
‘It’s not really about public health or a virus. They have another agenda.’ That’s what the so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been...
Thirty years ago today, on 3rd October 1990, ‘Germany’ was reborn. The division of Germany into East and West was supposed to have been permanent,...
Prime Minister Johnson (or at least the person operating his account), doesn’t respond to ordinary members of the public raising issues with him on...
You can do an awful lot with £100 billion ($127.8 billion). If you were a smoker, you could puff your way quite happily through the world’s most...
What a difference six months makes. At the last ‘Free Julian Assange/Imperialism on Trial’ event in London, in February, a number of speakers...
“It is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly...
The UK will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain this coming month, but in truth there isn’t too much to celebrate at the...
You can tell a ‘regime change’ is afoot in Minsk simply by looking at the coverage of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Their website at the...
“Originally launched in May, Health Pass is an extension of Clear’s mobile app. The service links COVID-19 related data like a health...
It didn’t take them long did it? The ‘Vladimir Putin ate my hamster’ brigade were very quick off the blocks to denounce the peerage given to...
What a difference a week makes. Last week, when out and about in my local city centre, it looked like things, at long last, were beginning to get back...
Don’t say you weren’t warned. The investigative journalist Matt Kennard revealed a few months ago the new Labour leader Keir Starmer’s meeting...
What is billed as the ‘likeliest’ scenario often proves to be the correct one. While it might be different in Agatha Christie, in real life the...
The recent revelations about the role played by the US management consultancy giant McKinsey in the processing of asylum applications on overcrowded...
YouTube has ‘Black Lives Matter’ as its Twitter bio. Pretty worthy, eh? But that didn’t stop the internet platform removing a video made by a...
We live in strange times. Ordinary people are being encouraged, some would say gaslighted, to feel guilty over bad things done by Western powers...
Black Lives Matter? Well, not if they’re in Africa, it seems. Having assured of us of its “anti-racist" credentials, the UK government is set to...
The investigative journalist Matt Kennard has written an open letter to the new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, asking five questions about his...
There’s a lot we still don’t know about the Covid-19 virus, but after this week one thing is very clear. The virus is super-intelligent. Rather...
If you point one finger at someone, you have three pointing back at yourself. The truth of that old adage was proved once again with the news that the...
‘Protect the NHS’ has been the slogan of 2020 so far in the UK. It’s ostensibly all been about Covid-19, but could there be another agenda? Back...
The drive towards a cashless society was well under way even before we’d ever heard the words ‘Covid-19’ but it’s been greatly accelerated in...
Cambridge University’s announcement that it is moving all its lectures online for the 2020/21 academic year is deeply worrying, as it seems to be an...
Large sections of the left, including the Labour Party and leading trade union figures, were cock-a-hoop when they heard the news that UK Chancellor...
In Britain, we have VE Day, in Russia there is Victory Day. World War II allies commemorating the historic events of 75 years ago, which saw the...
Just when you think the reputation of the UK media couldn’t sink any lower, it just did. An annual survey undertaken by EurobarometerEU, across 33...
I’m old enough to remember when David Icke was a television sports presenter. For the past thirty-five years or so he’s been putting his ideas out...
It’s one World War II anniversary that, if you live outside of Russia, you probably haven't heard of. Elbe Day, when the soldiers of the Red Army...