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
As Theodore Dalrymple points out, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is a nationalist and a socialist: “a national socialist”. Which might, perhaps, explain her government’s hyper-sensitivity to erstwhile national socialist leader Adolf Hitler being mocked by silly-looking dogs. When YouTube comedian Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula”, posted a video
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
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
Douglas Murray’s advice about responding to the BLM movement is not to play the racist game. He says you cannot win and gives the example of a UK discussion paper titled ‘Inequalities and Racial Discrimination’ produced by the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health Trust (BAME). The appropriate and
Prince Harry and Megan Markle are carving out a new life removed from Harry’s privileged upbringing and aligned to Megan’s aspiration to become Hollywood new royalty. Harry has thrown his past away to the winds of change and adopted a new ideology saying “the wrongs of the past
Shaydee Lane patriotrealm.com The Queen will not be amused after Harry’s latest episode of ” Who’s a pretty boy? ” – What a foolish, sad and cringeworthy parrot he has become. He is now ” Who’s a petty boy? ” His Nanny Meg needs to be fired and he needs an
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
Jake Hepple had a plane fly over the Etihad stadium with a White Lives Matter banner which drew condemnation from across the UK, but if Black Lives Matter then shouldn’t White Lives Matter also? This is the problem with subversive identity politics, if one group wants to claim they
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
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via The Telegraph recently
[Editor’s note]: There have been questions raised about the original source of the following letter doing the rounds on Facebook. For the purposes of discussion of the points made in the letter, I have reproduced it below. Given the rude tone of the letter, I think that it is
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
