A is for Aberdeen whence to Lerwick on a night crossing. Expensive. Snoring archaeology undergraduates ( Read more... )

From Cervantes and Goya, to the barbaric practices such as the treatment of the Podencos, a breed of hound long established in the Canaries and throughout Spain, to bullfighting. What is it that makes some nations seemingly indifferent to animal suffering? Before any accusations of racism are levelled one sees chav scum in England dog fighting, ( Read more... )

The P.V.V leader Geert Wilders, notorious for "Fitna" is not only welcomed in Britain but far more worrying, feted by a sensible people like the Dutch ( Read more... )

There is much ALARUM of news that Minerva's Owl was seen flying over BROWN and CAMERON. Such a story will be of great import and urgency to my readers that I feel a full account will be the only way to suffice. It is in the spirit of the occasion that I continue ( Read more... )

What is the legitimacy of a government that only 29% vote for? This will arise with the forthcoming election on Airstrip One/Ingerlund when only a few of the electorate actually turn out and in Churchill's words (the Tory not the nodding cute dog on the advertisement) the little man puts his little cross with a little pencil in the little box. Both ( Read more... )

La dolce vita turns sour. Will hordes of ex-patriate Britons flood back to a cold, over priced and paranoid Mother England? Retirees who escaped urine reeking lifts in dismal tower blocks, architechtural excrescences shat upon Shakespeare's septic isle, who were fed up of stanley knife waving soccer fans. Young families with yummy mummies who opted ( Read more... )

If one wants proof of the paucity of intelligent comment on television regarding Europe then one need look no further than the scheduling. Many years ago there was a programme called "Europe Express" 30 minutes or so rounding up what was going on both inside and outside the E.U. It was followed by Africa Express which logically did the same for ( Read more... )

Is Denmark becoming like Britain? I am incandescent with anger. Can Denmark call itself a democracy after the debacle of arresting one thousand far left activists, many of whom seem to have adopted an ovine approach to "kettling"? The left must start to think as one, to implement a united front, not just against the EDL/KKK/BNP threat but in regard ( Read more... )

You will not be offered a selection of wafer thin mints on arrival (nor should you be). Sometimes the staff will be nice and helpful other times they will be surly and rude ( Read more... )

The analogy is of a headmasters office. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are always polite, never in trouble and are to be made prefects. Today a list of press freedoms was published, and, surprisingly, Scandinavia was in first place. The rest of Europe? Ireland had high marks but I fail to see why, there is endemic corruption, unexplained ( Read more... )