So we’re sending a few bombers to join the other nations who are using their planes to do too little too late. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister may talk big about defeating the monstrous organisation known as ISIS but…
The people of Hong Kong are still out there on the streets demonstrating, illegally but charmingly, for full democracy for their state within a state. They want free elections and object to Beijing imposing a list of ‘suitable’ candidates on…
What is it about paisley pyjamas? If we are to believe what we read in the British press today, then they are irresistible if you are a Tory woman. Or so one of our tabloid newspapers found out when…
I may be a bit tired after hanging around during the night wondering about the Scottish Independence Referendum results but I feel good today – all of me except the tired bits – all my Scottish, Northern Irish and…
Islay, Scotland I haven’t joined in the debate about Scottish Independence until now because I just couldn’t make up my mind about next week’s referendum. I suppose it needn’t concern me as I don’t have a vote. It does…
The NATO leaders are meeting here in the UK – well Wales actually but let’s not go on too much about nation states. Britain is in the middle of an important and historical debate about whether Scotland should leave the…
What’s that noise? What noise? A solitary seagull? The postman ringing just once? The slight rustling of leaves? All of those things but something else too. The sound of silence! Yes, folks, here in the UK, the kids have gone…
I like to see myself as one of those much sneered at people, a white, middle class and rather liberal male and I’ve mostly been proud of living in my native home here in the United Kingdom. I often…
One hundred years ago today, diplomacy having failed, Britain declared war on Germany. World leaders and heads of state negotiated ways of preventing war but no diplomatic solution was found. Four years later 37 million soldiers and civilians were dead.…
These children are lucky. They are still alive. The little boy above is a Syrian and the one below is a Gaza Palestinian. We wring our hands uselessly over all the dead children killed in both countries over the years…