There is a reason for governments getting involved in controlling food prices. Hungry people riot and overthrow governments. The Arab ‘Spring’ is perhaps the most recent example of the chaos caused because the wheat price rose and various states no longer had the income to subsidise the price of food. Unfortunately food prices are regressive. […]
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Note: Three parts of the serial have already appeared online. You can find them here (Part 1), here (Part 2) and here (Part 3). Enjoy a really great story!
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The Job: The Complete Story July 6, 2021 ~ beetleypete This is all 34 parts of a fiction serial, in one complete story. It is a long read, at 26,310 words. **It also contains some swearing** Home from Spain. London didn’t feel as cold as Alan remembered. Even after twenty-five years in Spain, he didn’t need […]
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UK coronavirus news: only the Left want masks and lockdown to stay This week’s coronavirus debates in both houses of Parliament are proof that only the Left want masks and lockdown to stay. Below are revealing excerpts from debates in the Commons and the Lords. Emphases mine. House of Commons Health Secretary Sajid Javid appeared […]
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UK coronavirus news: SAGE member’s communism revealed on breakfast programme On Monday, July 5, 2021, Richard Madeley, an occasional co-presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB), asked SAGE member Susan Michie if her avowed Communism affects her coronavirus recommendations to the general public: … It must have come as a surprise to a number of […]
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UK coronavirus news: mask controversy mars possible Freedom Day reopening My post yesterday discussed the analysis of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid might announce on Monday, July 5, with regard to England’s Freedom Day, pencilled in for July 19. Speaker of the House Sir […]
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Coronavirus news: England awaits Freedom Day on July 19 One year ago, July 4 was England’s Independence Day from coronavirus. Shops and restaurants re-opened, albeit with requirements for masks. One year on, and it’s Groundhog Day. After a prolonged period of restrictions from Christmas 2020, England awaits Freedom Day, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson and […]
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England’s Euro 2020 success revives notion of Englishness It would be difficult to overstate how much England has been stomped on over the past 30 years and more. Britons are told that England does not exist; it is merely a collection of regions. The English are told there is ‘no appetite’ for an English Parliament. […]
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Julian Assange is a ‘journalist of distinction’ & has to be set free, Jeremy Corbyn tells RT outside UK’s Belmarsh Prison — RT UK News https://www.rt.com/uk/527928-corbyn-assange-extradition-belmarsh/ Julian Assange’s case should’ve ended as soon as a UK judge denied his extradition to the US, Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour leader, told RT as he joined other MPs […]
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UK news: Sajid Javid’s return to Cabinet as Health Secretary On the evening of Saturday, June 26, many Britons were relieved that Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed a new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care so soon after Matt Hancock’s resignation. Although lockdown supporters say that Sajid Javid has no experience in […]
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