What affects us affects cats
Thunberg’s arrest for supporting Palestine Action prisoners is a mistake because it will not result in a successful prosecution, the reasons for which I discuss below. Greta Thunberg has been arrested as you might know for supporting the Palestine Action hunger strikers at a demonstration. In short she is supporting the prisoners and she …
News media today reports: “Protests supporting banned terror group Palestine Action were ‘almost gloating over the Yom Kippur attack’, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has said.” The entirely peaceful Palestine Action protests are about freedom of speech. They want to undo the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation which it …
Yes, from my perspective Britain as a whole does at times seem broken. Or at least the services on offer seem to fail too often. A lot of people refer to ‘Broken Britain’. It is a great generalisation and means things no longer work in this nation. A kind of malaise hangs over the …
Daniel Finkelstein in The Times of 17th Sept. 2025 writes: “Everyone in Westminster is talking about the Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as the alternative [to Starmer as PM]…” Yes, which means that very few are talking about anyone in the Labour Party as a suitable alternative to Starmer. Which in turn means that there …
Remember the rejection of modest welfare cuts by the current Labour government several months ago in order to trim back (more actually needed) the burgeoning and unmanageable welfare expenses which burden this country to the tune of £313 billion in 2024/25 and which will climb to £373 billion by 2019/30? The draft law (a …
When five police officers turned up to arrest comedian Graham Linehan over a tweet, the nation once again asked: what on earth are the police doing? This latest debacle is not about Parliament passing a misguided law — it is about the police making poor decisions and losing sight of common sense. The Law …
For a long time, like many others I am sure, I have been quietly infuriated by the emergence of steroidal family cars. The UK is transforming elegant vehicles into metaphorically speaking muscle-bound SUVs (sport utility vehicle). Everything is now a steroidal sport utility vehicle. Super-heavy, difficult to park especially for the fairer sex who …
For donkey’s years I have been sickened by the LBC presenter James O’Brien’s arrogance when confronted with a caller with whom he disagrees. He almost inevitably insults people who have the temerity to call his show to disagree. Most often his production team block these people. You almost invariably get sycophantic callers who fawn …
