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I f there was any doubt at all that the White House is now staffed by imbecilic persons read this what Ian Dunt, a columnist for the British publication iNews said - "This might be the single stupidest thing any of us will ever see" , Dunt argued. "It is stupid in every way: presentationally, intellectually, politically, methodologically, morally and of course economically. The word stupid doesn’t really suffice for the full level of idiocy we’ve now reached” . Dunt found himself particularly appalled by the chart that Trump showed that contained wildly inflated figures about the tariffs foreign nations slap on American products. "It looked like something out of US daytime television – those garish cheaply produced shows where you can win a cash prize if you spin a wheel," he remarked. "You half expected a showgirl to appear behind the American flags, draped over a tariff quota rate. That’s what he is really: a cheap knock-off daytime TV presenter. The nu...

The Sun’s Saturday article of a week or so ago, Matt Goodwin pointed to some stark details of what he called his verdict on ‘Broken Britain’. So, obviously I am not on my own as I have been saying this now for a few years, on and off. In fact the cost of the national debt interest is even higher than I thought! Some £9billion a month interest? We may ask why do governments borrow so much? The rules of borrowing go for everyone. People, businesses and governments. You must keep an eye on borrowing as it can easily get out of hand. In the case of governments they just issue bonds. When the UK Government needs to borrow money, it can issue a bond, gilts as they are known. This is a way of requesting a loan from investors via the financial markets. In buying a bond, investors are lending the government money. By all accounts this debt stood at the end of March 2023, at £2,537.0 billion, or 100.5% of GDP ie £2.5trillion. The annual bill therefore is about £100billion! So, again why borro...

A while ago I started to read a book by an author named Douglas Murray. Thanks to my concerns about the civilisation we are building, or are in the process of, in Europe. The title is “The Strange Death of Europe”. A rather interesting title I would say, in the first place intriguing because the cover showed three words a lot of people do not want to know about. “Immigration, Identity, Islam”. It is quite evident that European peoples are divided. A small minority, mainly the ruling class versus the ‘normal’ population. The ruling class includes politicians, the judiciary, and academia. The author is clear in the idea that Europe is committing suicide. An interesting statement. He is talking about culture, also he finds that Europe ‘has little desire to reproduce itself or even takes its own side in arguments. Viz the problem with the eastern bloc, Russia in particular. Also that those in power and certainly so since the Second World War, seem persuaded that it would not matter if its ...

Well, well, so poor Heathrow Airport closed for a whole day? And this is 2025? Does that tell us anything? It sure does! Our infrastructure is pants to say the least and incredibly badly managed by our wonders in power. Whether they are Cons or Labs it doesn’t matter, they are all guilty of mismanaging the country. It is about time we all wake up and start smelling the roses. Except these roses are way past their sell by time. The rotten stench goes all the way up to No.10 and its ministers. People like Electric Ed (Miliband) who has his mind set on completely destroying the remaining tottering infrastructure in his quest to plaster the country with solar panels that don’t work and wind turbines that spew poison all around, (the bi-phenols from the vanes). The point here is that single minded individuals with some power are permitted to fulfil their wet dreams. The cost does not seem to be too important. I can say this having been through Electric Ed’s tenure as Opposition leader which...

T he beginning furore about contaminated waste sites are just beginning. Obviously, it has been known for years that such sites have been misused by unscrupulous business and also by an absence of proper supervision by local government agencies. Also possible rich opportunities for graft, meaning the ‘ celebrated ’ backhanders. As a matter of fact one only needs to come to the southern parts of Wales to find plenty of sites where rubbish was ditched by the tonnes. The Valleys are pockmarked. The small town of Tonyrefail situated in the Ely valley (Cwm Elai) has quite a number. By all accounts its Tynybryn Park is built on top of a waste dump, and next to the newly built A.4119 trunk road is a site that was originally the floodplain of the upper river Ely was heightened by unregulated waste dumping. Allowed by both the then Council and the company that took over from a food distributor. That company poisoned the land and the river by storing treated wooden pallets on it when the plentif...

It has been a nice week, weather wise that is, but just a bit cold . On other fronts there have been quite some upheavals, I’d say. With Trumpy boyo indicating “If they don’t pay, we won’t help them”, which could mean almost anything from not aiding Ukraine to not honouring Article 5 of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) commitment. Its central purpose is set out in Article 5 of th e Treaty, which says that an  “armed attack against one member shall be considered an attack against them all” . So, whatever the president of the US meant it did not sound too good. However, he is very much in favour of the rather blunt statements that are designed to ruffle feathers. Pretty evident throughout the ill-tempered White House meeting with the Ukranian president. In any case there were many ruffled feathers in European capitals. From equally blunt words from Paris to the mealy sort of stuff that comes out of London nowadays. It is obvious PM Starmer wants to play both...

Apparently last Sunday the Polish president Donald Tusk said this as he was leaving for the London summit on the American-Ukraine-Russian debacle: Why do 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians? He indeed called it a paradox. It is easy isn’t it, to rely on somebody who is too willing to do things that would cost you money, and billions of it. Europe just sat back and spend its cash of social experiments such as we have seen in the UK (despite our politicians’ denials) where literally we have created a nation where too many people are now expecting to be kept in luxury without lifting a finger. What’s more we are still doing it. And we are not alone. In the name of what they call humanitarian action, Europe including the UK has allowed, even encouraged, a mass movement of peoples from practically all regions of the world. Especially from places with economical poverty and living conditions without much of an understanding of the cos...