martinday92 days ago2 minJustice DeniedBarristers in criminal cases have gone on strike across England and Wales in a long-running dispute over pay. Eight out of 10 cases at...
martinday94 days ago2 minKeeping Up Appearances.Shocking news (not) at the weekend was that the government has been told it will cost much more than first thought to “level up” the...
martinday9Jun 231 minShockwave ComingBaby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The...
martinday9Jun 222 minRules, Rules, Rules.Not so very long ago, nudism was legal in Barcelona. Some people would go as far as walking their dogs in the middle of the Gothic...
martinday9Jun 202 minAmnesty International StatementResponding to the news that the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has certified Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face...
martinday9Jun 191 minFiscal ChurningLow-income households will soon start to get the first of the money pledged by Rishi Sunak in an effort for the current government to...
martinday9Jun 174 minThe New Schools BillThis is the link to the Schools Bill, do read it as it appears to centralise education to the extreme. I am unsure if parents will need...
martinday9Jun 152 minAs nightmares go…What would be your nightmare job? The only leaf sweeper in Sherwood Forest? Painting the Firth of Forth bridge? Both pale into...
martinday9Jun 142 minThe Eton EliteTwenty prime ministers were schooled at Eton College, of whom nine were educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, including all three...
martinday9Jun 132 minA Remainers Brexit?When Boris pushed for a large majority at the end of 2019, he told us all he had an “oven ready” deal to get Brexit done. What he really...
martinday9Jun 132 minWhy Condone Putin?Why are so many people who say they ‘identify’ as Libertarian so taken with condoning Putin’s War of aggression? ‘’Libertarianism, or...
martinday9Jun 122 minNew MoneyThe banking system continuously and increasingly creates new credit with a few keystrokes, without any corresponding real physical value...
martinday9Jun 111 minCars – reserved for the rich?New car sales are at a dangerously low level, after last year’s already poor sales fell in excess of 20%. It means the car industry had...
martinday9Jun 112 minJune 8th Was Tax Freedom DayTax Freedom Day falls on 8th June. Brits work 159 days of the year solely to pay taxes. UK Taxpayers will fork out over £869.4bn to the...
martinday9Jun 82 minDrain on Resources.During 2020 and 2021, the focus of the NHS was all on one thing. Cancer, heart and many other patients were of secondary importance to...
martinday9Jun 72 minWhither Representative DemocracyYesterday there was a flurry of excitement inside the Westminster bubble about a ‘vote of confidence’ in Boris Johnson This farce was...
martinday9Jun 61 minMaking criminals of us all‘Hundreds of people are thought to have descended on a huge illegal rave in Cornwall. The event, on Davidstow Moor near Camelford, began...
martinday9Jun 42 minCloser to the Edge?The number of Conservative MPs who have publicly called for him to go reached 42 following Sue Gray’s report on the repeated...
martinday9Jun 35 minElectoral Reform - A proposal for discussion"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess...
martinday9Jun 21 minHistory Will Not Judge KindlyImagine you are a student in 2042, reviewing the history of the early 21st Century reading with incredulity ‘the age of madness’. How on...