What is capitalism? The corner shop baker selling his bread is capitalism. The rock singer uploading music to Spotify is capitalism. The taxi driver with his own car taking fares is capitalism. I write books. A book that sells for £10 costs £2 to print; the publisher takes £3 and the bookshop £4. That leaves […]
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WHY THE RICH ALWAYS WANT MORE
There is a good reason why the rich always want more. Money provides status and connections. Big money makes you feel big, bigger than you are. The rich open doors for each other. Rich people don’t know and don’t want to know about the lives of poor people, their bills, their empty fridges and pockets, […]
LIVING IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
People in the United States are living in a parallel universe. Half the population believes the last presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump through massive voter fraud organised by a Deep State cabal of Antifa (anti-fascists), BLM (Black Lives Matter), communists and extremist Democrats led by Hillary Clinton who runs a paedophile ring from the […]
MRS THATCHER’S DREAM
Was it Mrs Thatcher’s dream to see pretty English beaches caked in fetid lumps of human excrement and untreated chemical waste? When she said there was no such thing as society, did Mrs Thatcher dream of a broken health service with striking nurses, a broken railway system with striking railwaymen, a broken society awash in […]
THAT IS THE CHOICE GOD HELP US
We are trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea. Excuse the cliché. That is the choice. God help us. The tricky, smooth-talking devilish three-quarter billionaire and former American Green Card holder Rishi Sunak and the deeply out-of-her-depth, obnoxiously silly and profoundly dull Liz Truss. Following in the footsteps of war leader Winston Churchill, […]
HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON
Rishi Sunak should not be racing to be Prime Minister. He should be in prison. Such is the quality of the eight candidates who have set their sights on No 10. With his wife Akshata Murty, Sunak at 42 is worth an eye-watering £730 million – a sum beyond the vision or imagination of the […]
Straight Glass Drinkers Are Not Amused
Straight glass drinkers are not amused, according to a poll carried out in my local. With a pint costing £5 in most pubs, being handed back two copper coins from your fiver is, at best, an inconvenience. Men don’t want wet 1p and 2p coins in their pockets. They want their government to do something […]