What a crock of s**t to describe 2016 as the start of “post-truth” politics. The Oxford English Dictionary is reported to have said that “post-truth” is their word of the year. In…
Author: bolshievik
How to overturn a referendum
If I was the leader of the Labour Party I would not ask Diane Abbott to go on TV programmes to represent my party. She appeared on The Andrew Marr Show, today….
The CIA and irony
They say Americans do not do irony. And of course, they do. But the CIA, on the other hand…. When the US foreign intelligence agency issues press releases about the (shock/horror) attempts…
The 45th president
How much of a surprise was it to find that Donald Trump had been elected president? To be honest, it was less of a surprise to me this week than I…
Liberal ‘democrat’ – LOL!
It is laughable for Nick Clegg to call himself a Liberal “Democrat”. His contempt for democracy was on public display when he appeared on The Andrew Marr Show, earlier today. Clegg had…
The Labour Party’s radical reformists
The true nature of the socilaism espoused by Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, were revealed at the Labour Party conference today. Despite all the left rhetoric, McDonnell made a…
Brexit lies – who told the truth?
The referendum campaign was cheapened and degraded by accusations of lies. And the most vociferous accusers were the Remain campaign. We were repeatedly told the Leave campaign were telling lies. The Remain…
Police? Racist? Surely not!
You do not have to be a trained detective to work out that young black men are much more likely to be stopped and searched than young white men. As Mr Olisa…
The trouble with Marxism …
The trouble with Marxism is that most of the people use that expression have not got a clue what he was about. And I am not referring the common man or woman…
The business of sport
When did sport become a business? A long time ago. I am old enough to remember when the eastern European countries dominated many events at the Olympics, and here in the UK…