The longest suicide note in history (1983) – replaced by voluntary euthanasia (2015)?

  Back in the distant days of the Eighties, the Labour MPs chose ‘left winger’ Michael Foot to lead the Party into their next General Election, having been defeated by Margaret Thatcher for the first but not the last time. His 1983 Manifesto proposed amongst other things unilateral nuclear disarmament (we didn’t have Trident in […]

World Athletics Championships 2015 Beijing Men’s’ 200 meters Loser – a ‘rehabilitated’ Drug Cheat?

  August 27 Well, well, well, the athletics drug cheats have hit the headlines yet again, with one Justin Gatlin first losing the 100m world title to Usain Bolt and then today losing his 200m head-to-head against the same opponent. What is the reason this is big news then? Because American Gatlin is a convicted […]

Labour Party Leadership Election 2015 – will the ‘no-hoper’ actually win?

Two months ago Jeremy Corbyn astounded the Party by announcing that he wanted to be the new Leader. You have to understand that this was a political nobody, never heard of outside of Islington, disloyal in Parliament beyond belief for thirty years, utterly out of step with the Blairites, or Brownites or any other set […]