We are now subject to regional lockdowns, town by town. These are increasingly ignored by an untrusting population, especially the young who appear to think that lack of age gives them immunity. They are possibly right in that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to affect them anywhere as near as the
Information Satire Latest poll results In a survey carried out this week support for the Labour party is strengthening. 66% of respondents said that they would vote for Labour at the next election, 33% said that they would vote National. 1% don’t knows was a rounding error. This poll
Taking time off from writing my letters from the North I managed to do some work for my day job. During my busy week, I had some interesting face time with managers of second-level funding institutions. These are participating in and advising on the Government protection devices attempting to keep
I thought that if I left things to settle down for a couple of weeks or so I would be able to report events with a positive note. How wrong can you be? I have previously suggested that the government of the UK was developing into a complete shambles, but
Information Satire Limerick competition Many thanks for the entrants to our Limerick competition, the submissions came flooding in. Both of them were given careful consideration and the following was selected as the winner: – there was a young girl from Waikatowhose intelligence reached a low plateauthe economy went flopincomes did dropand
To illustrate some of the actions of China whilst the West is distracted with COVID- 19, negotiations between Iran and China over the creation of a 25-year strategic development plan seem to have been finalised. The New York Times published excerpts from the 18 page document described as “final version”
Following on from my previous letter regarding China, there are now interesting developments in the UK. It has ditched Huawei from the 5G programme and is looking to remove Huawei’s influence from the current infrastructure over the next few years. The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from
The situation with China is deteriorating as the Western and regional Asian nations struggle with how to respond to the latest political developments emanating from China. The Chinese state is built on the importance of the North China Plain for its development. This is where historically the most fertile land
Hong Kong Island was ceded to the UK in perpetuity under the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, and the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, as well as Stonecutters Island, were also ceded to the UK in perpetuity under the Convention of Beijing in 1860. The New Territories were leased
More details are emerging of the problems with Leicester. In attempts to escape the lockdown, creative pleasure seekers have been caught trying to book coaches to take them to nearby Nottingham to coincide with the re-opening of public houses. The police got wind of this and put a stop to
With the reimposition of the lockdown in Leicester, there is more trouble on the horizon. By analysing test results we find that the 10 population centres most at risk of going back into lockdown are: Thirty four per cent of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 32% of deaths in intensive
Note: Since I wrote this Sir Mark Sedwill has resigned as Cabinet Secretary and from his other post as National Security Advisor. Both effective from September. With Boris Johnson showing ever more signs of strain, he appears to be losing his grip and the political antenna that was Dominic Cummings
The government stumbles from one mistake to another as we all wait for the daily corrections and U-turns on policy. It has all the hallmarks of Boris Johnson making policy up on the hoof much to the anguish of his cabinet. Johnson still looks ill, lacking his normal bounce and
In view of the anti-statue uprising now taking place in the UK I thought we could start with a little quiz about statues and whether we should destroy them. 1. This statue is to be found in Parliament Square and the person honoured was responsible for the death by bombing
Information Satire Golf record attempt. Later today the beloved national leader of New Zealand will make an attempt on the world record for the numbers of holes in one in a round of golf. She is hoping to improve on the record of 18 shots, currently held by our good
This has been a difficult comment to write, not because of writer’s block but because of the difficulty of deciding what to leave out. So much is happening in the UK that I will try and give a view on the undercurrents rather than what has been directly reported
