Monthly Archives: June 2019

I’m  at Arlanda, downing a storstark  before my flight back to a UK I scarcely now recognise, thrown into utter confusion by the stupidity – yes, stupidity – that is Brexit. I was planning to write a piece on that stupidity, until … Continue reading →

A number of our Tory politicians began as journalists, and then moved on to politics. Not all journalists are rogues, but the ones who write for the Right-wing press very often are. Boris Johnson is a key example, filing anti-EU … Continue reading →

So I’m a Swedish citizen. It says so. Back in the good old EU again. F*ck you, Farage! Maybe now that worried look and the bags under my eyes will disappear.

National independence, at least in modern times, is a myth – an illusion, a chimera, a lie, a Trumpism. Every country is dependent on others, including even ‘superpowers’, which depend on others being subservient to them. Imperial Britain depended on … Continue reading →

An excellent piece here by the redoubtable ex-diplomat Craig Murray. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/06/a-swedish-court-injects-some-sense/?fbclid=IwAR3x9OgvOukAPdQkfqYJ4933_1wD0NQ9sfLlRg8sNpj-QKAgJ6gpK5EoNWE. It looks as though Sweden has finally come to her senses and abandoned the effort to extradite Assange on the very flimsy ‘rape’ charges laid against him (by his … Continue reading →

Trump has a funny way with crowds. At his press conference today he claimed that there were thousands in London cheering for him, waving American flags, and only a small ‘rentacrowd’ of protestors. Reports of large numbers of the latter, … Continue reading →

Nigel Farage hasn’t yet published a British history book, or is likely to, I imagine; but at least two of his fellow Brexiteers have. There was Boris Johnson’s recent tome on Churchill, and another one due shortly, I understand, on … Continue reading →

I’m not sure why John Cleese believes that London is ‘not really an English city any more’. Most people assumed he was being (surprisingly) racist, and was referring to the brown faces one sees and the foreign lingoes one hears all over … Continue reading →