Why did Brexit increase immigration | Post war immigration statistics

Suella Braverman is leading a campaign to reduce immigration, furious that former Home Secretary Suella Braverman permitted a massive increase. Some people think immigration is a good thing, some think it is a bad thing. I am mostly in the good camp. There is a very obvious reason why the UK has immigration. The UK … Read more

What Just Happened? | Suella De Ville

I hadn’t intended to post a blog this weekend, but the events of the last week have been without precedent in British politics On Monday Suella Braverman sent a letter to the PM resigning from a job she was sacked from a few hours earlier. This was part of a bizarre cabinet reshuffle which saw … Read more

Births of Despair | Abortion, birthrate and authoritarianism

Recently I wrote about the link between authoritarian populist, politics and declining life expectancy. One of the factors I didn’t look at was the impact of banning abortion and the repeal of Roe Vs Wade. Even before the repeal of Roe Vs Wade Republican controlled states, mostly in the South, introduced increasingly draconian laws to … Read more

Covid Inquiry | Much worse than you think

The last few weeks have seem damning testimony to the official Covid inquiry. Johnson and his team are revealed as incompetent, uncaring, misogynist and totally unaware of how far out of their depth they are. A bunch of over promoted, under-talented posh boys who thought that running the country required the same skills as a … Read more