Monthly Archives: June 2008

At the Mansion House tonight the government will doubtless tell us the economic problems of Britain come from a global crisis – they are more the result of sub prime USA, not a sub Prime Minister. Our attention will be turned by attentive spin doctors and gullible media to wicked oil producers overcharging for petrol [...]

I would like to thank the Wokingham Choral Society for a great evening on Saturday. They performed a number of sacred and profane pieces around the theme of love, interspersed by readings. It was a pleasure to be able to read Shakepeare’s Sonnet, “True Love”. It made a welcome break from credit crunch and the [...]

The Governor may soon have to write a letter to the Chancellor apologising for the high rate of inflation and saying what if anything he needs to do about it. In a way it should be the Chancellor writing to the Governor, as the Treasury has been at the bottom of the economic mistakes that [...]

It is not surprising that when China and India come to the party they need a lot more oil and the price goes up. Striking delivery drivers here do not help the situation either. I can still buy a litre of petrol for around 45 pence, pre tax. That is good value compared with bottled [...]

Mr Miliband is presiding over a dreadful period for the UK’s reputation abroad. Our foreign policy bears the imprint of the last foreign visitor or international institution we have dealings with. We retreat and change positions as overseas visitors and meetings demand. The US delivered the insult to the French at the time of the [...]

This morning we learn that, privately, Gordon Brown thinks the Constitutional Treaty is dead, in a carefully crafted piece briefed to the Eurosceptic Sunday Times. How can this be a private thought when it has been so thoughfully shared with the nation through a major newspaper’s front page? How can it be anything other than [...]

The UK Europe Minister this morning gave us more of the tired old rubbish from the Euro elite following the stunning victory of the Irish people against their politicians in this week’s referendum. He tells us that all other 26 states should carry on ratifying, as if nothing had happened, avoiding any further referenda which [...]

Thank heavens the Irish were allowed a vote – the only country where they dared test their unwanted Treaty. Thank heavens they have voted No, showing that wherever the Constitution has been put to the people it has been defeated. Instead of talking about the “crisis for the EU”, and saying the voters have made [...]

A recent blogger on this site kindly praised me for backing David Davis immediately he resigned, rather than waiting to see which way the wind was blowing. Of course – I make up my own mind on these things, and wanted to influence what happened next by being quick to judgement. I am pleased that [...]

The EU should stop grabbing power from democracies, stop pretending it is a bastion of liberty and modern purpose, and understand just how hated its bureacratic and self serving ways have become. It should issue a simple statement: “The EU is grateful to the Irish people, and to the French and Dutch people before them, [...]