The end of ignorance

The end of ignorance

One of the major problems of today’s 24 hour news cycle and social media knee-jerk ‘citizen journalism’ is the assumption that any problem is an essentially modern invention and that sex itself was invented last week. Alas, nothing is new under the sun, as any...
A modest proposal

A modest proposal

Dear Conservative Parliamentary Party Collective Consciousness, Back when I was a callow youth in 1995, the thing which drew me to the Conservative Party was that we were essentially boring, grey suited people who happened to know quite a lot and happened to be very...
The Future of Unionism

The Future of Unionism

So, this weekend, suitably be-anoraked Irish Nationalists gathered in the Three Arena, Dublin, to begin what they hope will be open dialogue in preparation for an inevitable action towards the political unification of Ireland as a state.  It apparently didn’t appear...
Jog on, wrong’un.

Jog on, wrong’un.

When, aged 15, I joined the Conservative Party in the library of my school, I was aware of the reputation that would gather to me. I was boring, toryboy, I would be forever alone, my politics was more important than human interaction and, after all, I was joining the...