Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler Facts have been thin on the ground in the UK post the referendum result. Some newspapers, like the Express, read like they are straight out of a banana republic (though thankfully they’ve been forced to withdraw some …
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Reasons to be cheerful, or why brexit is very unlikely…
Theresa May said “brexit means brexit”, we see a parade of right wing clowns into the government roles related to negotiating brexit and we hear the rest of the EU wants us out. So if you believe in the UK’s EU membership you should suck it up and get over it, right? Wrong. Neither the economy …
Bregret?
For another post about brexit, I actually wanted to start with yesterday’s events of the publishing of the very long overdue Chilcott inquiry. For those praising the outcome, allow me to be extremely critical of the time and expense taken to publish a report that confirmed what many people thought years ago. That said though, …
We are here
Sometimes you have moments where you shiver, involuntarily, at thoughts of episodes so horrible they are unimaginable. The Battle of the Somme, where more than one million soldiers on all sides of the battle died. This year, for the anniversary of the battle, volunteers dressed as World War I soldiers appeared across the UK on …
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