… but it's booming in Basra. Possibly.
The folks in Britain contemplating an economic situation that appears to be going downhull fast could at least celebrate the fact that, according to today’s Guardian, the economy in Basra is booming....
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It has been announced that Wootton Bassett will henceforth be known as “Royal”, like Tunbridge Wells and Leamington Spa. The decision was apparently taken in response to a personal initiative by David...
View ArticleSo … why isn’t Caroline speaking?
Saturday’s big London demonstration against the cuts matters. It matters more in the face of a Budget that, predictably enough, has favoured big business and non-doms at the expense of ordinary people...
View ArticleRemembering 1914
Part of the point of commemorating the hundredth anniversary of a war is the certainty that nobody who served in it will still be alive. It is the point at which, definitively, that war has passed...
View ArticleDon’t mention the war: Greens, Iraq and Godwin’s law
Earlier this year, Brighton and Hove City Council passed a motion of no confidence in its Green administration. The debate was a curious affair, illustrating much about Brighton and Hove politics; in...
View ArticleScottish independence and the potency of nostalgic mythology
As an Englishman with strong Scottish connections I have watched the debate over Scottish independence with interest and no little frustration. It has not been an edifying affair – apart from that...
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