WITH anti-Semitism a worsening blight on Britain, the Prayer Book ‘For the Epistle’ reading for today, the last Sunday before Advent, is a powerful reminder that the Saviour of the world is the ultimate Davidic King. Normally, the Epistle reading is from the New Testament, but in the run-up to Advent Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), […]
FIGURES from the arts, the climate change lobby and others have signed an open letter in support of nine women, all members of Extinction Rebellion (XR), who were cleared last week of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage by breaking windows at HSBC’s HQ in Canary Wharf, a verdict likely to give the green light to further damage and bullying. […]
THE myth of cheap wind power has been well and truly demolished, but unfortunately it is the public who will pay the cost. After the failure to attract any bids from offshore wind at the latest Contracts for Difference auction, the government has announced that it will increase contract prices for new offshore wind projects […]
THE major supermarkets continue in their quest to introduce groundbreaking technology into their stores. Tesco (300,000+ employees) is spearheading this drive with its latest offering. It is trialling ‘magic tills’ that enable customers to pick up their groceries, drop them in their basket and proceed to the tills, where they are presented with their list […]
SCARCELY a day goes by where my disdain for the mainstream media does not grow. Most recently this has been occasioned by the election of Javier Milei in Argentina. Having taken over one of the world’s most convincing basket cases (descending from a leading global economy to failed state in a few swift decades), our […]
WHEN I heard that Nigel Farage was to appear on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, my immediate feeling was disappointment. Truth be told, the man has been sliding this way for a while; from commodities broker to activist, politician to presenter, it wasn’t going to be long until he fell into the realm […]
BEN Pile’s recent report ‘Clean Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Politics’ lifts the lid on how a few super-wealthy individuals influence public policy, and how the Guardian newspaper, in spite of repeated declarations to the contrary, receives funding from billionaire Gates to the tune of £92 per reader. The BBC, while constantly boasting about its public service role […]
CHARLES Dickens was an English novelist whom many regard as the greatest writer of the Victorian era. He was tremendously popular during his lifetime and his novels and short stories are still widely read today. One of his best-known characters remains Wilkins Micawber, who appeared in the novel David Copperfield. Micawber was good-natured and kind, but was prone […]
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