Harold Wilson considered military action on an abandoned sea-fort where Radio Caroline had been broadcasting and was then taken over by other radio pirates. Other plans to scupper them included dropping Marines on to the naval fortification off the Suffolk coast and forcing ‘the surrender of the occupants’. The government’s […]
Media & Politics
In recent years we have seen many dark days indeed down in the UK’s gutter. No matter how pointless the Leveson inquiry into the morals and actions of the British Press, its political fog has descended over journalism. And, like the London smog used to, it seems set to be […]
If there’s one thing Brits hate it’s seeing something misused. Now, revelations in the aid sector have shown just how charity money meant to provide services to poverty-stricken countries could have been shamefully misused. Oxfam’s former director in Haiti, Damien Berrendorf, left last year following allegations of mismanagement. The charity […]
News has been rushing around the web that the BBC has decided to retain FM frequencies for the foreseeable future. Now, let’s correct that, the BBC is controlled by OFCOM, so it’s not its call anyway. That noted there are very good reason why the BBC would want to hang […]
President Donald Trump grinned with pride as he announced what he saw as a “new American moment” in his first State of the Union speech to Congress. It was a polished speech which bragged about his economic record, lower unemployment, restored consumer and business confidence and a rising stock market. […]
The massive number of stabbings in London has sent knife crime to its highest level nationwide in more than six years. There has been a shocking 26 per cent leap in offences. The Official for National Statistics said almost 40,000 blade offences were committed in England and Wales in a […]
Civil rights activist and gospel queen Mavis Staples has called for a return to the protest era of the 1960s as President Trump revealed his own fake news awards. The president cited The New York Times twice while the broadcaster ABC and the magazines Time and Newsweek were each ‘exposed’ as […]
Well where do I begin? Is it just me or is everything classed as a conspiracy these days. Now don’t get me wrong I like a good conspiracy. But just because someone has followers on YouTube and makes a lot of videos, doesn’t mean they are right all the time. […]
Was the elegantly coiffured President Trump faking it when he took to social media and claimed he would be presenting “corrupt awards” to the media? “I will be announcing the most dishonest and corrupt media awards of the year,” Trump tweeted after coming up with the idea of a “fake […]
Impeachment is on the lips of many people, including myself, who know little of the implications of such a process but understandably rant about how a man of Trump’s calibre can continue to be, arguably, holding the most powerful position in the world. I have spoken and written about why […]