Britain's lame duck Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, thinks the benefit system is responsible for trapping young people into unemp...

  I read the book 'The People of the Abyss' , many years ago. It is Jack London's account of several weeks that he spent living ...

  Massacre at Drogheda Oliver Cromwell's statue in Manchester city centre was removed in 1968 ostensibly because of road development. So...

  Keir Starmer Britain's lame duck Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, thinks the benefit system is responsible for trapping young peop...

  A country like Britain is governed by people who are amateurs and who have not only never run a company, but really don't have much of...

  Nigel Farage Occasionally, Nigel Farage does say something honest. He did say, " Politicians? Let's face it, they're all wank...

  Cutteslowe Walls Oxford The English nationalism of people like Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP, hardly bears scrutiny. I don't fe...

  Richard Cromwell They didn't fight the English civil war to behead a king, abolish monarchy, or to introduce democracy. General Thomas...

  Although many British politicians are suspected of being on the take, it's almost unheard of to charge and convict a British politicia...

  Enoch Burke Enoch Burke is the Irish school teacher who was dismissed from his job for gross misconduct because he refused to use the pref...

  I think the issue of legal gun ownership in Britain is really about social class. When I used to shoot 12 bore shotguns, every shotgun own...

  Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' , is possibly one of the greatest films...

  Arthur Griffith During the eleven months of the Irish Civil War (1922-23), more Irish were killed than had been killed during the War of I...

  Victorian child exploitation Many Victorian working-class kids were literally worked to death. Some of these children died of exhaustion. ...

  Shot At Dawn There were 3,080 deaths sentences given to soldiers serving in the British army during WWI, of which, 346 were actually carri...

  The Home Guard My Dad died in 2015 and would've been 100 next September 2026. He was called up as the war was coming to an end and he ...

  " Multiculturalism" can mean a number of different things, but at its simplest, I suppose it can be defined as allowing many di...

  The economist J.M. Keynes made a lot of money from his investments, but being an economist, won't necessarily make you a rich man, or ...

  Lee Anderson Lee Anderson MP, a former Labour councillor and Nottinghamshire miner, and former member of the Carlton Club, has just accuse...

  Colin Ward An interesting article on the English anarchist Colin Ward. I used to read the magazine 'New Society' and wrote arti...

  John Bull Is there any such thing as a pristine Englishman? Our language is a mixture of French, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Norse, and so are ...

  Sarah Ferguson I find it quite extraordinary that any British charity would have wanted their name associated with the Duchess of York, Sa...

  Vasily, Svetlana, and their father Joseph Stalin If members of Stalin's inner circle shed tears on the death of Joseph Stalin, it was ...

  Meteren Military Cemetery  I know of two men who refused to be conscripted in WWII. They were told they would have to go before a tribunal...

  Prince Andrew & Jeffrey Epstein  Prince Andrew took Emily Maitlis for a ride during the infamous " car-crash " interview. Th...

  For the father of classical economics, Adam Smith, the merchant, entrepreneur, and manufacturer, were the best example of the " energ...