Politics
Michael Foot »
Michael Foot made very few mistakes. The Press Association reports that Michael Foot, the bookish intellectual and [...]
Finance
While Rome Burns »
A million-and-one things are distracting our politicians - naturally-occurring disasters such [...]
New Predictions 2010/2013 »
Alistair Darling has never looked so relaxed. David Cameron observed that if Darling and and the Prime [...]
Double economic Trouble »
The UK's 2009 budget deficit is the worst in its history and the present government is doing very [...]
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The Righteous Brothers
The Pope's brother, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, has said he was completely unaware of allegations of sexual abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, where he was in charge for nearly 30 years. Luckily for him, he has contacts in high places and he and his fellow Domspatzen old-boys have the added protection of the Vatican's extremely [...]
Bugger me, Ratzinger
Rev Georg Ratzinger, the Pope's brother. Please do not read any further if you are easily offended. I have written about the abuse of children by sexually-frustrated Roman Catholic priests and as one of my core beliefs is that every child has an inalienable right to love and safety, I have not pulled any punches. However, if you are a [...]
Want £250K?
I have spent over a year looking for a good solid local company in which to invest on behalf of a client. I have looked at woodworkers, builders, cooks, fancy goods sellers, computer menders, even a plumbing company and a couple of antiques businesses. All were ordinary people, mostly from the artisan classes who had decided to "have a go" [...]
USA out.
There was a time when celebrities and politicians were falling over themselves in the mad rush for free publicity as they jetted into Port au Prince in Haiti. For a time, Haiti looked like a cross between a G20 meeting, the Oscars and a pile of rubble with a cast of frightened poor black people. Intense-looking surgeons and doctors speaking in [...]
Vatican? What a bummer.
The Real Sign of the Cross Yesterday, the Vatican said that it backed a German diocese's efforts to shed light on sexual abuse allegations connected to a renowned boy's choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI's brother Georg Ratzinger. The Regensburg Diocese, which oversees the school connected to the Regensburger Domspatzen choir, said that a [...]
Media
Cheryl Cole minor strife »
Ashley and Cheryl Cole - two thick working-class pikeys who we somehow expect to behave respectably, simply because of the very thin veneer of [Read More]
Conflict
What happened to us? »
What has happened to the British people? We used to be a subversive unruly lot who [...]
Blair escape »
One again Tony Blair has done his Houdini act but the fault is not his. He was badly [...]
Global Warming
Global Warning »
Recently. there was a ridiculous sentence on the evening TV news and it sums up what is wrong with the reporting of Global Warming: "Thousands of people have died worldwide as a result of climate change caused by global warming and the Greenhouse Effect." More [Read More]
