If you don’t want to know the TRUTH 16
Posted on
June 27, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…look away now.
Archive for the ‘world’
The Day Before Tomorrow Today 31
Posted on
June 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
They’re back to save us all.
Wait, correction, that should read: they’re back – God save us all.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough 74
Posted on
June 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll shortly round up the last pieces of data from our Panelbase poll of English voters last month, but this one merits singling out, we think.
Wait, what?
The Too Wee Club Redux 157
Posted on
May 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Returning to a theme.
(Original series here.)
Trampling on graves 540
Posted on
April 17, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night – at the insistence of the SNP – the House Of Commons held a six-hour emergency debate in the wake of the UK’s unquestionably illegal bombing of Syria at the weekend, under the supposed justification of a chemical attack that may well not have happened at all, far less have been the responsibility of the unfortunate country’s murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad.
(Loony left-wing conspiracy theorists casting doubt on Assad’s responsibility for what happened – or didn’t happen – in Douma include, er, Major General Jonathan Shaw, the former head of the UK’s special forces, and Admiral Lord West, the former First Sea Lord under Tony Blair and Minister For Security And Counter-Terrorism in Gordon Brown’s government.)
The debate concluded with a token vote, not on whether the bombing was right or wrong but which merely asserted whether Parliament had “considered” the subject. (ie voting that it had NOT done so would have made a statement that the Prime Minister acted improperly by committing UK forces to a conflict without obtaining MPs’ assent.)
Faced with the opportunity to issue a symbolic public rebuke to the government for bypassing Parliament on a matter of war and breaking international law, the radical socialist opposition Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn… abstained.
The rule of law 212
Posted on
March 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A large and imposing statue built in 1974 still stands today on Clyde Street in Glasgow. It depicts a woman called Dolores Ibarruri, known as “La Pasionaria”, who was one of the heroes of the anti-fascist resistance in Spain in the 1930s.
The statue was funded by “the British Labour Movement”, but Conservative councillors in the city protested angrily when it was erected and vowed to tear it down if they ever controlled the council (which cynical readers might consider an empty threat).
How times change. Read the rest of this entry →
The terrible burden of volatility 595
Posted on
March 01, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
