Category Archives: Politics and sociology

I can’t speak for the experience of other bloggers, but from time to time my experience is that the site gets inundated with showers of phantom “hits” from specific countries, for no reason I’ve ever been able to fathom. The latest such phenomenon is that, since 24th April, I have had literally thousands of hits from the usually uninterested city-state of Singapore. In fact, Singapore’s hits have more than doubled the total visits over the last month, though they seem not to have actually read any of the articles.

September 28, 2022 The US ambassador to Sudan has warned of consequences if the northeast African country allows the establishment of a Russian military base on the Red Sea coast. In an interview with the Tayyar newspaper, John Godfrey said “there are some reports that Russia is trying to implement the agreement it signed with ousted President Omar al-Bashir in 2017 to establish a military base along the Red Sea.” He warned that such a move will isolate Sudan from the international community and undermine the country’s interests. “All countries have a sovereign right to decide which other countries to partner with, but these choices have consequences, of course,” Godfrey … Continue reading →

The next crisis being prepared for us by our Western media and governments, it seems, is the inevitability of war with China. We’re being told that China is preparing to take over the world (from us, I suppose – what a diabolical liberty!), so that Taiwan is being groomed as a flashpoint, whilst Tik-Tok is being banned for spying on us, or corrupting us, or something.

My school friend Murray wrote a scurrilous parody of Manfred Mann’s single My Name is Jack in order to lampoon the teaching staff, and especially the new headmaster, whose first name was Wilfred. He got punished for it, no doubt because he posted it hand-written on a school notice-board, but it was very funny. It began: My name is Wilf, and I live by myselfAt the Royal Grammar SchoolAnd every week I bring youA wonderful new rule.