THIS was the week that I got out – or ‘was got out’ – from behind my desk, where I normally spend far too many hours of the day, to enjoy some of the things that London still has to offer. The first was an invitation (courtesy of my elder son) to the Magdalen College Oxford choir’s […]
‘The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell’ – William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army SOMEONE once said ‘the Church of England exists for those who don’t go’, or words to that effect. I’ve […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating out top twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 15 and it was first published on April 14. This is the last in our series about four well-known men whose purposeful social engineering over the years has undermined national democracies and […]
PRECISELY 120 years ago, on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, achieved the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The two fearless, pioneering Americans were overjoyed. Almost 69 years later, in October 1972, Henry Getley made his first flight – from Gatwick to Palma, […]
While Notes from the Sticks is having a short break, we are repeating some previous columns. This was first published on March 19, 2023. COMMENTERS sometimes reminisce about the late TV presenter Jack Hargreaves, so I thought I would recall few of his programmes. I have to admit that I don’t really remember him, but […]
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Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
THE recent focus on the Channel crisis has revealed a striking statistic: only 1 per cent of small boat arrivals since 2020 have been sent back to their home country. We knew that the number of enforced returns had dropped to a paltry level (see the chart below), but this recent revelation vividly highlights the Home Office’s […]
AS promised, and with very big thanks to Callum Watkinson and his ‘Hunt and Gather’ reporting and video company, I am able to continue posting the US scientists’ and doctors’ presentations at MP Andrew Bridgen’s ‘The Pandemic and its consequences’ event at Portcullis House held on Monday December 4. The first of the speakers to open fire – I understand […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating the twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 16 and it was first published on June 8. INCH by agonising inch, we move closer to the denouement of the ‘safe and effective’ Covid vaccine tragedy. It is agonising for doctors […]
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