Afghanistan Today it is reported that President Karzai has said that if he is put under too much ‘pressure’ by the West over corruption and other issues relating to the ineptitude of his government ‘he might join the Taliban’. This astonishing declaration, coming on top of his outburst accusing the UN of organising electoral fraud, […]
Each Party Fights a Different Battle Over the campaign each main party has a different battle to fight, yet how it does will affect the other two. Labour must stand on its claim to have called the right shots, once it realised that it was heading into a financial mega crisis, Gordon Brown showed world leadership, […]
Problems in the Church This blog is secular and does not promote one faith over another, but it respects all faiths and upholds the right to hold and support any religion dedicated to goodwill and healing. The Roman Catholic church is in serous crisis. To an outsider looking in, I am not clear that the nature […]
Drugs Another resignation form the panel which advises the Home Secretary on drugs brings into the open the continuing turmoil in the relationship between government and scientific advisers. There is a quite erroneous understanding by the government that if it sets up a council, panel, or task force to advise it, it owns the opinions […]
Election This blog is able now to predict the possibility of an outright Tory win. Their campaign has now found focus on the issue of National Insurance increases. Labour have been caught off guard and made a mess of their response. For the first time for months Cameron is making the running. The Tory lead […]
Israel Air Strikes Everybody accepts the right of Israel to defend itself from attack. The question on the international mind today is whether these recent strikes really were born out of an actual or developing threat that was new, or where they were set up to show Obama that Israel does not have to listen to him? […]
Electoral Fraud President Karzai has announced that the widespread fraud, which is acknowledged to have taken place during the presidential election which returned him to power, was orchestrated by the United Nations, the European Union and other ‘foreigners’. Why are our troops dying in this man’s country? What are we trying to achieve? How on […]
National Insurance This has become an election issue. It appears to be a good Tory move, in line with their supposed philosophy of being a low tax party. Cameron explains it better than Osborne, yet neither explain convincingly how it is to be paid for. Nevertheless the slight widening of the Tory lead in the […]
Sea Change It is said that Jim Callaghan remarked to a colleague during the election campaign of 1979 that he thought he would lose, because there was a ‘sea change’ in the public mood. He was so right. The expression ‘sea change’ may again prove apt to describe the public mood, though which party will […]