Author Archives: bernardporter2013

Back from the UK after a month there, and travelling through northern Europe on the way back to Sweden, the differences between the two (or several) places appear stark. Of course this might be because the part of England I … Continue reading →

Is it wrong to want to make political capital out of the horrendous human tragedy that was the Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire)? Maybe. And yet there’s no doubt that politics had much to do with it, … Continue reading →

Apparently Estonia has surplus prison accommodation which it’s offering to the British government (for rent, I presume) to help ease the latter’s critical shortage: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/prison-overcrowding-labour-mahmood-estonia-b2607985.html. I understand that Britain has turned the offer down, preferring instead to build more prisons … Continue reading →

A long post, I’m afraid; and on a sensitive and even dangerous topic. I seem to remember warning in an earlier post that the ‘Israel lobby’s’ scurrilous hounding of Jeremy Corbyn as a supposed ‘anti-semite’, might rebound on them, and … Continue reading →

I went to a boys-only ‘Direct Grant Grammar School’, part-boarding (I was a ‘day boy’), which desperately wanted to be regarded as a ‘Public’ (private, independent) school, and decked itself out with all the supposed appurtenances of that status in … Continue reading →

What are we to make of the women who have figured so prominently on the Right of British politics over the past several years? Do they shock us – me, at any rate – because they seem so unwomanly? Women … Continue reading →

It’s almost as if – and I’m sure this has occurred to many others – the Conservatives over the past 5-6 years deliberately fucked things up, in order to leave their successors with the unpopular task of clearing up their … Continue reading →

I’ve always thought it ridiculous that Zionist Jews should rest their ultimate claim to Palestine/Israel on the commands of a mythical being in the sky, as recounted in an old magic book. But I never doubted that those were the … Continue reading →

In Sweden criminal gangs are recruiting children to carry out their most heinous crimes, including even murder. Some of the reasons for this are spelled out in this recent statement by the Swedish police: https://polisen.se/en/victims-of-crime/are-you-worried-that-your-child-will-be-lured-into-crime/. Children have various legal protections … Continue reading →

As an immigrant here in Sweden – you might even say a refugee – but needing to return to the UK occasionally, I’ve recently become alarmed by the rapidly rising costs of air and rail travel there, even by ‘cheap’ … Continue reading →