One year on from the Hamas attack into Israel and the hostages still remain unfreed. Gaza is reduced to rubble and Hamas, contrary to Netenyahu's claims, are barely dented in their ability to cause Israel trouble. Now the maniac of the Kneset has turned his attention towards a fight against Hezbolla...

The appointment of Sue Gray as Kier Stamer's chief of staff in September of last year was always a controversial one. Having headed the official enquiry into Boris Johnson's partygate (and appointed to do so by Johnson himself), the subsequent shift to a role in the Stamer top team seemed to confirm...

Life is a terminal condition. We all suffer from it and we will all die from it. Which is why I'm suspicious - very suspicious - about any attempts pigeonhole such definitions to the point where they can be used as the yardstick upon which the continuation to fight for its preservation should be bas...

Labour has always been castigated as the spendthrift party who shower money around like confetti on public services and wasteful exercises in social amenity improvement. But I happen to think that borrowing to invest in areas that will generate future wealth (as opposed to day-to-day spending) makes...

Another day another escalation. Now it's Iran, sending its ballistic missiles into Israel, certainly in a more decisive way than was the case in the previous missile attack back in (what?) July, but still in a way designed to minimise damage to the target and limit the fallout therefrom. Despite the...

Boris Johnson has released the first round of his political memoirs. Given the fabled relationship between Johnson and the truth it will be as much a work of fiction as anything penned by the now (politically) unemployed Nadine Dorries - her of the steamy 'desk bonking' political novellas which have...

You have no idea Av! It's been ongoing for a while and has totally overshadowed the Labour Party annual conference. Stamer and crew have been feathering their nests for all their worth while telling the rest of us that we've got to take up the burden of setting the broken country to rights. Undoubte...

Yesterday, I watched a YouTube posting in which ex BBC presenter and historian Neil Oliver compared Kier Stamer and his 'clothesgate' scandal to the scene from Orwell's Animal Farm , in which it is revealed that while the regular farm animals are undergoing hardship and privation, their leaders are ...

The current Israeli action in Lebanon is almost a strike by strike replay of the 1982 war, in which the aim on that occasion was the complete removal of the PLO from the country. For a twelve week period the Israeli forces first battered the country with missiles and bombs, before launching a ground...

In possibly the most egregious understatement of the year to date, Chief Medical Advisor to the government Professor Sir Chris Whitty has said that the risk of Covid-19 might have been overstated to the British public. Speaking from amid the smoking ruins of our country (another 50 year old family b...

In a telling report from the Ukrainian front line yesterday, Sky News reporters went out to the eastern front to shadow a team of medical corps workers as they collected wounded Ukrainian soldiers to bring them back to safer regions for treatment. The wounded soldiers were delivered at night time by...

I recently tried to read the series. I made it to a point just beyond where I'd fallen on my previous attempt (my first), which was around a third of the way through the middle of the three books. I just didn't like it, so there was little point in continuing. I also failed to finish Mordant's Need,...

Interesting little article on the BBC's news website in which it reports that NHS chiefs are less than happy about the messaging that is being put out pertaining to the service, saying it is damaging staff morale and threatening to put people off from coming forward for treatment in a timely manner ...

A 'city of two tales' would be one way of putting it, though that would perhaps be stretching things since Beirut is quite a bit beyond the region of the most intense exchanges going on between Israel and and Hezbollah, where the former borders Lebanon. Today's news reads of the intense shelling of ...

Yesterday it was smug Angela Rayner, talking to the BBC before her conference speech, that was pursuing the 'nothing to see here' line - this despite revelations in the Sunday press that she'd accepted a freebie holiday in a swish New York apartment (from this same donor who's been splashing the cas...

Number 10's stating that it is "laser focused" on "delivering on the priorities of the people" while the ship burns around it, is beginning to sound a bit like the dazed automatic response you might expect of a person who'd just emerged from a car-wreck claiming they were "O...

Let's have a look at the Saturday morning papers in the UK and see what we have. The Times first. Stamer and team will no longer accept donations for clothing they announce, having been rumbled on the nice little piece of grift they've been enjoying, but this leaves plenty of scope for any other fre...

There is little point in Foreign Secretaries Blinken and Lammy calling for ceasefires and deescalations now, when neither side have done anything other than give Netenyahu completely free rein do do exactly as he pleases in response to the October 7th attack. Unnumbered people, the huge bulk of them...

It's a particularly vicious thing to do, to rig pagers and walkie talkies so that they explode moments after a message is received, so that the devices are almost guaranteed to be being held at optimal distance to effect maximum damage to the face and eyes of the victims, and the hands by which they...

Little bit of background on the ongoing claim, mainly of those that have doubts about the Western/Nato involvement in the Ukraine conflict, that Britain and the US scuppered a peace deal that would have ended the debacle, meer following its starting. The Ukrainians and Russians had met immediately f...