Tag: politics

  • …February 2026

    …February 2026

    Money may well make the world go around but what happens if you don’t have any money, or you fear that tax rises and inflation will wipe out whatever surplus you do have? This is the question that many British people have been asking themselves for several months now. 

  • :January 2026

    :January 2026

    So, the end of January. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses but the Delorean has been fired up and we’re all heading back to the future, like it or not, courtesy of the US and its President, one Donald J Trump.

  • …November 2025

    …November 2025

    The British public began November by celebrating Guy Fawkes’ efforts to blow up Parliament in 1605, and ended the month with the government’s efforts to blow up the economy, courtesy of yet another tax raising budget.

  • …October 2025

    …October 2025

    Trick or treat – something broke in October and now the days are getting shorter. All the usual ghouls have haunted the news cycle this month but the story remains the same; move fast or get slimed.

  • …September 2025

    …September 2025

    September began the way that August ended, with the lead news item being the summit for bad leaders held in China to make the Chinese leader Xi Jinping look good. All the world’s top b*stards – almost all – turned up to showcase their poor fashion sense and discuss how to live forever.

  • …August 2025

    …August 2025

    August started off on a sombre note with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war. Everything went downhill from there…