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He who Sits in the Heavens Laughs

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 23 February 2025; Hits: 707

2025-02-23

Konstantin Kisin, addressing the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, takes the fine art of ridicule seriously - in the nicest possible way. But then, he is almost English ...

(16 minutes)

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Trump - The First Month

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 21 February 2025; Hits: 735

2025-02-21

If I would summarise the main events of month one of the Trump Administration, I would fall very short - but happily the Trump Administration is not backward at coming forward.

(49 minutes)

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And no such report would be complete without Elon Musk:

(36 minutes)

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A British Politician Who Says It Like He Sees It

Details: Category: Defence; Published: 20 February 2025; Hits: 682

2025-02-20

Yes, it's George Galloway, a British politician still in possession of most of his marbles - sadly a rarity in this time of political pygmies-in-charge.

And his hectoring style does lend his oratory a certain ... substance.

"Zelensky's Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single British grenadier"

Quite so.

He isn't exactly uninformed either ... and raises some interesting points about the situation in Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza.

President Erdoğan's intentions are not raised, when maybe they ought to be, as Turkey is indeed a major player in the region. Yes, it's complicated.

(20 minutes)

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Neil Oliver Meets Col Douglas Macgregor

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 20 February 2025; Hits: 719

2025-02-20

Trump, Ukraine, New World Order - there's a great deal to discuss and much of it still unclear.

What to make of it? Whither Zelensky? Whither Ukraine?, Whither Europe? Who will pay for it?

And Whither the Middle East?

This isn't the usual Neil Oliver 10 minutes - this is a very level-headed and serious discussion, with no very clear answers. Probably as good as it gets just now.

(48 Minutes)

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But whatever the US and Russia have in mind for the Ukraine, Turkey may not be on board ... and clearly has interests in the Middle East as well, so may well be central to resolutions to solve the problems in both arenas.

When the Law is an Ass?

Details: Category: Legal; Published: 20 February 2025; Hits: 843

2025-02-20

We may all have an opinion on the operation of "Human Rights" laws in our country, but as most of us are not lawyers, we may be unsure exactly why we hold such an opinion.

Quite possibly it was because at some time in the past we read a newspaper report about some case or other and wondered how on earth the judgement that was handed down could be justified. We remember our reaction, but forget the detailed reasoning that underpinned it.

After a number of such reports crossing our cognitive threshold, the conclusion remains but the details have probably fallen through our memory hole. Unless of course we are a lawyer with a professional interest.

Dr David McGrogan writing for the Daily Sceptic does us a favour by explaining the primary characteristics that make laws good law, and how some of those primary characteristics were defeated by the introduction of the Human Rights Act of 1998 which enshrined foreign legislation - the European Convention on Human Rights - into UK Law.

At a stroke this meant that judges would have to decide between two possibly conflicted bodies of "law", with consequences that might have been foreseen but which we must lawfully assume (innocent until proven guilty!) were not foreseen.

This has led to numerous cases where the outcome appears to be perverse, not only to the man in the street, but also to eminent politicians ... which has the inevitable effect of undermining the standing of judiciary and politicians alike in the public eye.

Worth reading, particularly the bit about being "reasonably constant and not in flux" and "must be comprehensible".

I would challenge anybody to read any Act of Parliament of recent vintage and agree that

they are readily comprehensible
the Parliamentary practice of permitting changes to the substantive wording by statutory regulation (not requiring a vote in Parliament) complies with both of these principles.

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