Entertaining the troops: £400,000 is a small price to pay
There has been a certain amount of controversy over the last couple of days after it was revealed by the MoD that it spent around £400,000 of taxpayer’s money last year sending celebrities to meet and...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Room – The Case for English Devolution
In recent weeks politics has been dominated by the debate around Scottish independence. Very rarely is there a news bulletin or newspaper without someone pronouncing on the issue. Last year the major...
View ArticleHow about you ‘Occupy’ a seat in the Job Centre?
“‘Life is so unfair and its all the government’s fault, along with big business and bourgeois opression”. Do you think the idea has crossed the mind of the Occupy protesters that perhaps if they had...
View ArticleThe power of veto: Are the floodgates open?
David Cameron’s veto of the EU treaty to fix the Eurozone crisis may only really have stalled, rather than prevented, Europe’s fiscal union, but it has potentially opened the floodgates for the use...
View ArticleHaving no faith in the government
Baroness Warsi has expressed fear at the rise of militant secularism, typically putting two words together in one term and deliberately blurring what is intended to be understood. As it is in vogue to...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with having a secular society?
In the wake of Baroness Warsi’s comments in the Telegraph today I feel the need to ask the question; If Britain is being taken over by an increasingly secular population where is the mandate to push...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Wish For – The Separation of Church and State
The recent controversy over prayers being on the agenda of a council meeting has brought into sharp focus the role of religion, specifically Christianity, in Britain, and whether in a modern...
View ArticleThe NHS or the UnNHS?
The ongoing debacle rumbling around Westminster and protestors offices about Andrew Lansley’s fabled and long cherished health bill is continuing, with many points of controversy and disagreement....
View ArticleIn Defence of Nick Clegg
In the space of a little under two years Nick Clegg has gone from the immense popularity of ‘Cleggmania’, where at one point he was the most popular political leader in Britain since Winston...
View ArticleThe Great Example
‘Arguably the greatest peacetime Prime Minister in British History’ D.Read- Peel and the Victorians 1987 The current Coalition government in the United Kingdom and its policies are always being...
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