‘President Trump’ made agreements with ‘Leader Kim Jong-un’ – how’s that working-out do you think?

 Anyone with any nous just knew that big-talking Donald Trump was heading for a fall in thinking that he could meet-up and parley with Kim Jong-un in June and come away with an agreement on denuclearisation that would be meaningful and stick, didn’t they? Afterwards, Trump expressed such confidence in the diplomatic process he had […]

American President ‘Donald Trump’ meets North Korean ‘Supreme Leader’ ‘Kim Jong-un’ – triumph or disaster?

  A post here in March “American President ‘Donald Trump’ verses North Korean Supreme Leader ‘Kim Jong-un’ – the fight of the century?” outlined the situation with a then proposed meeting with North Korea and the prospects of a successful outcome Well, last Tuesday, Donald Trump, an overweight [if not obese] fast-food addict [not least burgers […]

Donald Trump may be seen as a ‘despicable’ president of the United States – but he’s spot on the button about ‘Iran’?

    Some three years ago America organised a so-called “peace” deal with rogue state Iran (known as Persia before 1935), supposedly to stop them becoming a ‘nuclear power’, in exchange for six world powers [the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany] unfreezing $100 billion of Iranian international assets, cancelling the punishing & biting sanctions […]

Peaceful coexistence NOW on the Korean peninsula – what a fiasco?

  North Korea and South Korea are AT WAR! Make no mistake about THAT, will you? However, currently there are no missiles, no bombing, no tanks, no machine guns, no infantry killing the enemy, and no combatants’ terrorising of the other’s civilian population – long may that continue, eh? However, the stark glaring fact is […]

Assad attacks his people ‘once again’ with chemical weapons – Syria, a hell on Earth?

Well, it was back in August 2013 that PM David Cameron recalled the British parliament from its summer break over the Syrian crisis of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons there. It was Cameron’s intention that MPs voted to take part, together-with the U.S., in limited military action then, in response to the […]

Being ‘anti-Israeli conflict against Palestinians’ isn’t being ‘anti-Jews’ nor being ‘anti-Semitic’ – and Jeremy Corbyn is no ‘figurehead of ant-Semitic culture’?

 Anti-Semitic HATE  in   Many of us thinking people in Britain can float between parties when it comes to voting, according to what we think is best for our beloved Country. Nevertheless, while socialism doubtless should have a significant role to play in the future of the UK, the bulk of the people here could […]

American President ‘Donald Trump’ verses North Korean Supreme Leader ‘Kim Jong-un’ – the fight of the century?

Just seven months ago in August, there was President Donald Trump [in power since 2017] on our screens in a characteristic outburst, ranting with verbal jousting at Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un [in power since 2011] with reciprocal dire threats against North Korea: ”They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of […]

Result of ‘Oldham West and Royton’ 2015 by election – is it a bit of a surprise then?

         Friday, 4 December 2015  2am Well, well, well, today Labour has faced their first by-election challenge of this parliament in an ultra safe seat of theirs in Greater Manchester, but nevertheless a serious test. However, this was the first chance for the general electorate to have their say about current politics, wasn’t it? Labour […]

The British Labour Party – now leaderless again?

Jeremy Corbyn has now discovered the real problems of swapping rebellionness for the responsibility of leadership, don’t you think? Last night some third (66) of his Labour MPs including nearly half of his own selected Shadow cabinet, his front line troops no less, have defied his wishes and voted with the Tory Government to bomb […]

Oldham West and Royton 2015 by election – what’s the prediction?

         This Greater Manchester seat of Oldham West and Royton is up for grabs on Thursday in the first by-election of this parliament, and under normal circumstances, Labour would be expected to easily retain it. It has after all been a very safe Labour stronghold for a long-long time – veteran Michael Meacher held it […]