Let’s say the UK Government were to suddenly collapse, who of us would even clock?

Amusing Ourselves to Death The thing about UK politics in the latter stages of 2022 is that hardly anyone pays it any mind. And why would they? There’s a World Cup on and only so much information the nation can imbibe. Were you to have been raised to believe in gravity, that the earth is […]

Confidence Noncey-Dents

It’s hard to know exactly what prompts the placement of any particular story in the news cycle. Take today’s Times. Evgeny Lebedev’s photo appears and we’re told that he’s only popped into the Lords twice in the last couple of years. Which begs the question, what is he doing there in the first place? Canada […]

Jubilee Britain: “when it comes to blacks, I’m with Enoch,”

There’s nothing wrong with putting these photos next to each other. We live in a supposedly free society in which one ought to be able to express oneself freely on any subject. Juxtaposing white UK police taking the knee in 2020 to atone for the killing of George Floyd in America with a black British […]

News, Off the Cuff, On the Spectrum
April 25, 2022
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Google Docs to stop you getting yourself cancelled

On the radio this morning I heard the BBC presenters talk about Government recommendations to set up a regulator to oversee professional football. The idea is that the game has become too commercial and the owners not of sound character. One of the commentators in the following article says there are: ‘Too many self-interests in […]