Category: BBC

Dumb Struck

June 28, 2016

I have all but been struck dumb by the monstrous stupidity of my fellow countrymen, much though I expected it. That the overpaid ninnies of England football have also obeyed the popular dictate to leave Europe forthwith merely reminds me of how often we have faced abject failure in the past. To be so severely … More Dumb Struck

End of the Road

July 13, 2015

It is all too apposite that the French national motto – Liberté, égalité, fraternité – should encapsulate two of the concepts Britain seems bent on repudiating, while if we have one at all it is the gnomic royal motto Dieu et mon droit, generally thought to refer to the divine right claimed by the monarchy. We need … More End of the Road