Dec
21
2020
The Government' s tactic over Brexit is now clear. They will keep the EU talking over fishing rights (only 1% of the British economy in other circumstances it would be high comedy) until time runs out to make a...
Nov
25
2020
You can bet that virtually every tyrant in history has been the product of a devastated childhood, and exercises supreme and arbitrary power either to cover his feelings of inferiority or to exact revenge through surrogates on those he...
Nov
23
2020
Think of the fuss there would be if somebody destroyed the Mona Lisa. But a human embryo is more precious still. Its development is surely the greatest wonder in all of nature. It is the beginnings of a person...
Nov
21
2020
When fish are dragged out of the oceans in huge fishing nets, their eyes often pop out of their heads owing to the change in pressure and they suffocate as they are crushed amongst millions of others. On the...
Nov
15
2020
Few want another Brexit referendum but we should keep the possibility open because, whatever happens, Brexit is now bound to be a disaster. This is primarily because the nation is now not solidly behind it, as it was behind...
Nov
10
2020
Poverty is never a natural condition but always imposed on the have-nots by the haves. Food was being exported out of Ireland to England during the potato famine. In the great Indian famines of the late nineteenth century the...
Nov
05
2020
If Al Gore had become President in 2000 - he won a head count by half a million votes - there was at least a chance the world would have united to defeat climate change. In the election of...
Nov
04
2020
I am neither a socialist nor a paid up free market capitalist. I think all economic and social systems become toxic when taken to an extreme. Too much socialism gives you Stalinist Russia. Low tax Thatcherite deregulated capitalism...