Pragmatist

The murder-suicide of Jim Jones' 900 cult followers in 1978 was " the largest single incident of intentional civilian death in Ame...

No sooner did we rid ourselves of the crony Conservatives than it turns out the Labour PM, his wife and senior ministers accepted clothing a...

Britain's voters need to be on guard against extremists in this year's elections,  starting tomorrow . The divisive nature of Britis...

From Faux FoxNews' 'coverage' of Trump's "stolen election" claims to a seemingly endless list of British governme...

When the renowned diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote his "Letter to Lorenzo de' Medici" 500 years ago he considered Italy t...

Well, finally Johnson has gone, albeit with veiled threats of a comeback ("for now" and "hasta la vista, baby," alludin...

Drug classes A, B and C to remain UK drug enforcement officials say a new drug has taken hold in Britain, pushing 'traditional'...

There are many ways to draw the political spectrum , but most of the time we talk about "Left" and "Right" as an endl...

The OMRLP is short of candidates. Only 12 Loonies have been nominated for GE2017, the fewest since 1987 . The problem is that nothing se...

So, another political 'party' season slips by and the casual observer would think the Tories' policies must be more or less ...

April passed in stunned silence on this blog because I was waiting patiently for the UK General Election to get real. Instead, our po...

With the UK general election looming in May, I thought I'd declare my apolitical hand: I'm hoping for another 'hung' Parl...

As one who loathes the use of party-political dogma to muddy the waters of sensible debate , I was delighted to read Tim Worstall 's li...

As the Labour Party took it's "jump to the left" this week, we saw firsthand how " madness takes its toll." Th...

It's been a difficult month to finish this post. Every day another dollop of decrepitude is revealed amongst our rotting institutio...

A Conservatory Dream Last night we were treated to the story of a family who can now achieve their dream of building a conservatory , ...

You know you're being played like a fiddle when Westiminster erupts over something as nebulous as Britain's membership of the E...

The term ' political class ' is being waved around at the moment like a loaded pistol at a poker game.  It's not clear w...

My appetite whetted by this week's local electoral melodrama, I've been searching for some Class A political journalism to feed m...

You've got to hand it to Nigel Farage. I don't know whether it's the cigar, the pint-fuelled interviews, that he survived a ...