For the first time in thirty-three years, I am carless; my small VW is sitting outside but I am reluctant to use it. At first, I didn’t react when the next street was suddenly sealed off at one end assuming it was due to the usual, ‘road works.’ Then the road I use once a week to shop for myself … [Read on]

David Kernek wonders if today’s refugees from the Middle East and North Africa get the Welcome to England guide that was given to those fleeing Europe in 1939. He doubts it. My mother, Greta Kernek, didn’t know she was a Jew until a girl in her class told her she was. She was told she was a ‘Jewish bitch’. This … [Read on]

Black lives matter (so Liberals keep telling us), but I’ve come to the conclusion that they don’t. If they did, one would expect the left to be more concerned with knife crime, gang membership, and absentee black fathers. Instead, the focus appears to be propping up false narratives which invariably translate into nice little earners.   Police brutality is not … [Read on]

Although it is almost midsummer, there have been a number of occasions in the last month when I have been tempted to turn on my central heating at night. Although many people have remarked on how cold it has been, the BBC has avoided any mention of it in case it contradicts the doctrine of global warming. Had it been … [Read on]

Steven W. Mosher, writing for the New York Post way back on February 22 last year, might have been the first journalist to come right out and say it: ‘Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab.’ In short, the origins of Covid-19 were not to be found in Wuhan’s live animal market but in the … [Read on]

There is celebration in the football world at Chelsea’s winning the European Champions League on Saturday night. But I notice that Chelsea’s A team features only two or three English players, the rest consisting of foreign internationals purchased courtesy of the largesse of the club’s billionaire Russian owner Roman Abramovich. Truth be told, it is no more an English club … [Read on]