Levelling up lies
Boris Johnson is desperate to trumpet at every opportunity how well the UK is performing, its economy growing faster than other G7 nations. Everything is world-beating. We’re at the forefront of all that’s positive....
Category: Brexit
Deception
“Everybody knows Boris Johnson can lie for England. To his supporters, it was one of his best assets. They believed he could bamboozle the European Union into giving him the only Brexit deal that...
Fascism arrives as your friend
Last night I was reading a Scandi-noir book, though not written by a Swede or Norwegian but by an English author who lives in rural Sweden. The book, the fourth in a series about...
Post-Brexit Britain – Failure and Fragmentation
The Sue Gray report may have been put on hold, but today the Met police concluded the law had been broken and issued fixed penalty notices to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife...
Food for thought
Fuel shortages and price rises have been hitting the headlines along with price hikes for food and tales of empty shelves in supermarkets. Fuel self-sufficiency is far from the norm and is causing a...
Brexit isn’t working
A Different Bias is a channel started in 2018 by teacher Phil Moorhouse to turn his political rants in the staffroom into videos about Brexit era Britain. Over the past year Phil, described as...
The Union: An aberration? – Part 2
Scotland’s education Much maligned by Unionists, Scotland in fact has a well educated population – the percentage of Scots holding post-secondary school qualifications continues to be the highest in Europe. Our universities are ranked...
Fire and Rehire
The UK Government says its furious at P&O Ferries’ action in sacking with immediate effect 800 of its crew members, conveniently forgetting that just five months ago a bill to end the practice of...
No questions asked
“British social and political institutions remain open to hidden influences from Russian and post-Soviet elites. Such weaknesses are chronic and institutional – they are not just about a small number of examples of wrongdoing.”...
The Union: a journey into the unknown
Politicians, commentators and posters have for years urged Unionists to make their positive case for the Union. However some of us came to the conclusion years, maybe decades ago that there is no such...
