Monthly Archives: December 2017

@Les Kaye votes Leave! @StephenKMackSD @Britannia rules the waves @Les Kaye votes Leave! Thank you, for your both thoughtful and informative response. The ‘decline’ I’m speaking of is not just Mrs. Thatcher’s penchant for passing out  ‘The Road to Serfdom’ as if … Continue reading →

Headline: Nato sounds alarm on Russian submarine activity Sub-headline: Undersea operations highlight suspicion between Moscow and western alliance Instead of the usual Financial Times New Cold War hysterics, this news story features  Rear Admiral Andrew Lennon, Nato submarine forces commander to … Continue reading →

Headline : Corbyn government is ‘nightmarish’ prospect says business chief Sub-headline : Outgoing head of EEF manufacturers’ lobby breaks silence to attack Labour A Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn would be a “nightmarish” prospect for the business world, the outgoing … Continue reading →

@Chris Thank you for your thought provoking comment. Disruptive tech, Uber and Facebook, Silicone Valley. Disruptive tech means simply a change of platform, an evolution in communication like the telegraph and telephone, not to speak of radio and television! Uber … Continue reading →

Even with the E.C. J.  ruling, The Financial Times ‘reporters’ are still awash in the Neo-Liberal rhetoric  of ‘ride hailing services’ , ‘peer to peer services‘! Government’s first duty is to protect the lives of its citizens! Or should the … Continue reading →

What could be more filled with self-exculpatory mendacity that the latest essay from Neo-Conservative David Frum? Trump demonstrates that the political class in America is failed. Trump was the Ring-Master of The Apprentice, in all of its iterations, that established … Continue reading →

The reader of Mr. Stephens latest essay portentously titled “The Real Russia Scandal’ has to be unimpressed as he restates the ‘evidence’ of Russian meddling in the American election, and it corollary of Trump and his minions being active co-conspirators … Continue reading →

Mr. Kuper’s self-presentation is that of the voice of ‘reason’ but it takes patience to read through Mr. Kuper’s collection of cliches, framed by the dubious, even invidious comparison of ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the ‘Baby Boomers’. In terms of … Continue reading →

@Joan-Enric Torrent. Barcelona. E.  Burke and B. Disraeli predicated their ‘Conservatism’ on a shared faith in the benevolence of a landed English aristocracy. Call it what it was a comforting political delusion . The fact of  Dickensian London coming to … Continue reading →

Headline: The case for European conservatism above grand designs Sub-headline: We should work at preserving what we have, rather than dreaming up new projects Would that Mr. Garton Ash had followed his request for silence on the part of EU … Continue reading →