Author Archives: bernardporter2013

Arday’s autobiography, published posthumously, eventually reached me in Stockholm. I was planning to write a review of it, but have decided not to bother. Firstly because so much has already been written about him and his ‘case’, including by his … Continue reading →

The War of 1812-13 is usually presented to Americans as being their second ‘War of Independence’, which they won. Well, OK – up to a point. It did help to save the fledgling USA from re-conquest by Britain; but the … Continue reading →

I wonder whether Farage and the other Brexiteers realised that making it more difficult for foreigners to enter Britain might also make it harder for Britons to re-enter Britain from abroad? That’s my situation just now. Having lived in Sweden … Continue reading →

One of the chief suspects in the recent tragic case of Jason Arday is ‘DEI’ – the acronym standing for ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’. The idea behind this is to ‘promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, … Continue reading →

Brexit was supposed to protect Britain from all those nasty immigrants from Europe who threatened ‘ar sovrinty’. Which it probably did, to some extent. Certainly we don’t find so many foreign doctors and nurses in our hospitals as we used … Continue reading →

My thoughts pretty exactly. (See https://bernardjporter.com/2026/08/16/plagiarism/.)

I‘m not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ – or at least I don’t think I am. But it’s difficult to dismiss the idea that there’s a dark conspiracy underlying the resistance of the US Department of Justice to the full publication of … Continue reading →

Surely he must be certifiable by now – certifiably insane, that is? I don’t think I need to rehearse all his symptoms here; many other commentators, including professional psychiatrists, have already done that. (See, for example,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Case_of_Donald_Trump.) Diagnoses vary, but … Continue reading →

If it weren’t for the curvature of the earth I’d probably be able to see the coast of Estonia from here. ‘Here’ is our island in the Stockholm archipelago, looking due east (roughly); and reading Baltic-related literature, after our trip … Continue reading →

When I was a university teacher I always came down very hard on plagiarism, which I regarded – and still do – as the ultimate academic sin. That’s if I was able to spot it. I couldn’t always: when for … Continue reading →