I’m currently reading a fascinating history book: Young Nelsons: Boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars. It’s astonishing to read of boys of ten, 12 and 13 not only going to sea with the Navy, but fighting with distinction in some of the greatest battles of their time. While
March 15th, 2023. I was sitting outside today (yes, it wasn’t raining or snowing!) thinking about the impending storms and it was only yesterday that I realised it was Spring as the swans had returned to our little river. Photos supplied. The BFD. Having reflected on how quickly seasons
Jill Edmondson, Research Fellow in Environmental Change Jonathan Leake, Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions University of Sheffield British supermarkets are imposing limits on how many salad staples shoppers can buy as supply shortages leave shelves empty of some types of fruit and vegetables. The disappearance of fresh produce is said
If anyone ever demonstrated the essential vacuity of loudmouth celebrities and the wisdom of staying in your lane, it’s Peter Garrett. Garrett made a career out of shouting fashionable political slogans. Then he made the mistake of getting parachuted into a safe Labor seat and having to put his
In an episode of the excellent hard-SF series, The Expanse, hard-bitten mechanic Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) comments, Have you ever talked to a pedophile? Amos, whose character is slowly revealed as having had a particularly brutal childhood, is trying to make a point about obsessive addiction: if you
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk MPs have voted against an amendment that was introduced by a group of MPs led by Andrew Lewer MP to lessen the negative impacts of the buffer zone clause that was added to the Public Order Bill. The Public Order Bill includes a
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science In recent days social media has been awash with the scandal of Matt Hancock’s “lockdown files”, following a leak of his private WhatsApp messages to staffers during the UK lockdown. The below headline from The Telegraph’s Lockdown Files Team refers to
It’s not much satisfaction to keep on learning just how right we were, all along, about the Covid pandemic. Whether it’s the worse-than-uselessness of lockdowns and mask mandates, or the endless lies about the Covid vaccines, the schadenfreude of being right when the worst bullies in
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The day before MPs vote on whether to introduce nationwide censorship zones, a woman has been arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion clinic just three weeks after she was acquitted on similar charges. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life volunteer, was
As I reported some months ago, ThoughtCrime is officially an offense in Ingsoc, now. To that, we can now add that Christianity is an “offense”. Never mind if spittle-flecked men in dresses chant that they want to “Kill TERFs” (i.e., women). Thousands of Muslims can threaten to “behead
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk As the House of Commons looks set to introduce censorship zones outside abortion clinics across England and Wales, a group of MPs have tabled an amendment to ensure that the legislation does not criminalise thought. Set to be debated yesterday (Tuesday 7 March)
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
March 5th 2023. The latest polls were released last week, showing Labour with 50% support from those polled and 22% supporting the Conservatives. Bringing up the rear were the Liberals (9%), Reform (7%) which is formed from the Brexit movement, Green 6%, Scottish Nationalist 4%. As preferred Prime Minister, Keir
Uta Staiger Executive Director, UCL European Institute UCL For years, the EU-UK relationship has been bruised by the seemingly impossible puzzle of post-Brexit, Northern Ireland trade arrangements. Yet, after just four months of talks led by Rishi Sunak’s government, we now have a new deal. The “Windsor
Daniella McCahey Assistant Professor of History Texas Tech University When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. Sixty-five years later, it’s remembered in New Zealand chiefly
It’s a time-honoured tradition for oldies to look down on the Yoof of Today, but it’s rarely anything more than geriatric grousing. Most recently, it’s been the fashion for elderly Boomers to sneer at the “snowflake generation”, and especially their ovine obedience to “progressive” nostrums about
