Israel Air Strikes Everybody accepts the right of Israel to defend itself from attack. The question on the international mind today is whether these recent strikes really were born out of an actual or developing threat that was new, or where they were set up to show Obama that Israel does not have to listen to him? […]
Electoral Fraud President Karzai has announced that the widespread fraud, which is acknowledged to have taken place during the presidential election which returned him to power, was orchestrated by the United Nations, the European Union and other ‘foreigners’. Why are our troops dying in this man’s country? What are we trying to achieve? How on […]
National Insurance This has become an election issue. It appears to be a good Tory move, in line with their supposed philosophy of being a low tax party. Cameron explains it better than Osborne, yet neither explain convincingly how it is to be paid for. Nevertheless the slight widening of the Tory lead in the […]
Sea Change It is said that Jim Callaghan remarked to a colleague during the election campaign of 1979 that he thought he would lose, because there was a ‘sea change’ in the public mood. He was so right. The expression ‘sea change’ may again prove apt to describe the public mood, though which party will […]