SHOCK, horror! Baroness Mone admits lying to the press about using her government cronies and position in the House of Lords to make a £60million profit from Covid PPE. Is anyone surprised? Lying and corruption are part of a politician’s stock-in-trade. The list of those exposed would fill an encyclopaedia. It’s the norm, not the […]
In the run-up to Christmas we are repeating this series about Christmas songs by Jewish writers, which was first published in December 2021. THE writers of Silver Bells, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, were responsible for a number of songs now considered to be classics, and have been described as ‘the last of the great songwriters of Hollywood’, but their […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating our twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 13 and it was first published on January 19. NEW Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigned last night after months of rumours. Ardern, whose popularity has plummeted during the last six months, told […]
This is the second in our series of articles by the much-loved TCW writer Nick Booth, who died in September. It was first published on December 18, 2015. You can read Kathy’s introduction here. PLEASE don’t punch me, but I’m going to offer you some unsolicited advice on motherhood. Yes, I know. I’m fully aware […]
In the run-up to Christmas we are repeating this series about Christmas songs by Jewish writers, which was first published in December 2021. A WHILE ago I wrote a series for TCW called The Melody Makers about the extraordinary and wonderful flowering of musical creativity among the Jewish population of New York, mainly immigrants from Europe, in the 20th century. […]
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 […]
INCREASING numbers of Britons are reportedly becoming ‘preppers’ – preparing for disasters such as war, flood, lockdown and pandemic by laying in bulk supplies of food, water, medicine and other essentials. But a more immediate threat is on the horizon. With the build-up to a 2024 election and a possible Keir Starmer government, Britain will become […]
MARK Drakeford’s announcement that he is stepping down as the First Minister of Wales was greeted with unalloyed joy by the right minded. Under his tenure public services have all got catastrophically worse while the stranglehold of extreme climate change legislation – of which the 20mph speed limit was just the start – continues to tighten. A […]
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