Author Archives: bernardporter2013

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 →

Could what we’re experiencing today in Britain – the economic and social problems, ludicrous governments, right-wing extremism, culture wars, riots and general anomie – be a sign or symptom, or even an effect, of what ex-US Secretary of State Dean … Continue reading →

My first great literary (if you can call it that) enthusiasm was Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future. He was the comic-strip space hero of the Eagle’s front page in the early 1950s; in retrospect rather less science-fictiony than we … Continue reading →

Thank God (or whomever) for last night. No neo-Fascist riots in Britain, although they had been widely predicted. Instead, huge friendly pro-immigrant crowds, with music and dancing, but no reported violence, and the few neo-Nazis who did show up having … Continue reading →

Universities in Britain – especially the newer ones – are often ridiculed for offering degree courses in so-called ‘Mickey Mouse’ subjects, in order to attract a wider range of punters. As an ex-university teacher of a more ‘traditional’ and – … Continue reading →

It looks as if I returned from England just in time. According to Elon Musk, ‘civil war is inevitable’ there now, after the riots of the last weekend. Wouldn’t that be great for Musk’s newly-acquired social media site ‘X’ (formerly … Continue reading →

Immigration is a problem just now in England mainly because people think it is. Which is not to say that there aren’t genuinely problematic aspects to it – housing the refugees, for example; accommodating them safely in the meantime; adjudicating … Continue reading →