Claiming my Irish inheritance
Most people regard me as a typical Englishman, but, in reality I am, like many people born in the British Isles, a mixture of English, Scottish and Irish. It just happens that I grew up in Sussex in Southern England,…
Most people regard me as a typical Englishman, but, in reality I am, like many people born in the British Isles, a mixture of English, Scottish and Irish. It just happens that I grew up in Sussex in Southern England,…
I may have been shirking a responsibility by avoiding writing blogs about the woeful state of our politics here in the United Kingdom. Maybe I’m a warrior wannabe who just got tired of being on the losing side. Maybe I…
Those two rocket men, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un went up in smoke at Lewes Bonfire, our local and the world’s biggest celebration of that eccentric festival that used to be known as Guy Fawkes Night. Tens of thousands of…
I see that we in the UK are going to allow our Parliament to vote on the BREXIT ‘agreement’ if there is going to be one. This is an enormous relief that, after much hedging and dodging, our government really…
She did it – signed the letter that triggered the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ from the European Union. I had hoped, ever since the depressing referendum result, that, somehow, we might avoid the consequences of what I consider to be the…
This week, British prime minister, Theresa May looked rattled. She was doing a Trump by walking away from hints that she might have triggered the infamous Article 50 this week to, yes, trigger (ominous word) the United Kingdom’s intention to…
I’m mostly quite a cheerful optimistic type of person but, really, looking at the world as we move towards Christmas, what is there to be cheerful and optimistic about? Well, I just planted my spring bulbs; my family is coming…
BREXIT effigy from Lewes Bonfire 2016 First we are told that Parliament doesn’t need to decide Britain’s future over leaving the European Union and now we are informed that our High Court judges are the ‘enemies of the people’…
Exited BREXITER Andrea Leadsom stands down from the Conservative leadership election. So there they all go! Whoops. After the Leave campaign in Britain’s EU Referendum claimed victory, it all looked like celebration time for its leaders, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage,…
David Cameron and his wife, Sam, celebrating their narrow victory. It all seems such a long time ago doesn’t it. Dave and Sam Cameron getting one of the biggest shocks of their lives in 2015 when the Conservatives…