This week Chris Cash, a Conservative Party researcher, was arrested as a Chinese spy. He worked closely with Tom Tugendhat, Minister of State for Security. MI5 also revealed that they had warned the Conservative Party that 2 of their potential candidates for the next General Election were also working for Chinese security intelligence services. Once… Read More Spies in Whitehall | Security breaches P2

A short tribute to the Zelig of modern politics, Grant Shapps. 5 Questions only.

Labour are miles ahead in the polls. Not since Tony Blair in his pomp has a leader of the opposition enjoyed such huge polling leads. The Tories seem to believe that defeat is imminent with large numbers standing down at the peak of their powers. OK peak of their powers seems a bit exaggerated when… Read More Labour 2024 | Why is Starmer so boring?

Two and a half years ago Donald Trump was banned from Twitter for posting inflamatory conspiracy theories. His response was to set up his own social media network called Truth Social. Tweets were called Truths, and Donald was the most truthed of all. The financial structure of Truth Social was complex – there were 2… Read More Trumpanomics | Truth Social and Lies Corporate

Trump has been formally charged for  his part in the hapless coup of January 6th.  The attempted coup was a serious attack on American Democracy, even if it’s storm troopers were clowns and weirdoes. Over the last few years I have written about the way that people get lost on the internet.   Whether it… Read More Lost on the Internet | Hippies for Fascism

Same as it ever was

Last week the Government has had only one thing they wanted to talk about – being tough on people coming here to claim asylum. You would have thought that having made such a mess of things they would want to keep their mouth shut. While all of this was going on a much lower profile… Read More Stop the Boats | Why the obsession?

With immigration on the increase and interest rates rising the claim that high house prices are caused by immigration is going around again. I am sceptical, and not just because the original claim came from Dominic Raab, who is wrong on pretty much everything. On paper the link between immigration and house prices seems pretty… Read More Immigration and Houses Prices | Are immigrants coming over here pushing up house prices?

There is a big campaign building against plans to close Railway Station ticket offices, and replace them with self service machines instead. When people talk about automation replacing human workers automatically we think of robots building cars at Nissan, but in fact it is more likely to self service check outs and ticket machines replacing… Read More People hate robots | Ticket Offices, KLM and the NHS