This is my reaction (for what it is worth) to the request for a village cockerel to be executed because new arrivals in a village do not like his ‘music’.

So, the cockerel must die because recent arrivals in a village are discomfited at his early morning call. Such behaviour by human kind lacks logic; Read the rest of this entry

The Electorate should be wary of Gordon Brown’s new pitch of trying to garner the sympathy vote. In trying to exploit the British sense of fair play and support for the underdog, the Prime Minister is merely offering a new line in obfuscation or mandelsonation. Voters should not forget that bullies Read the rest of this entry

Sir, For three reasons Mr Van Orden’s views on air travel security are cause for concern. First, delays in the interest of security at airports are neither unnecessary nor humiliating nor a justification for anxiety; the importance of life transcends any such considerations. Second, any security Read the rest of this entry

It would seem that the nation is blessed with discrete police associations for Black and for Muslim police officers. Apart from a knee-jerk response of wondering whether there are similar bodies for Christian and/or white police, it might be surmised that these organisations erode the principles of Read the rest of this entry

I doubt if it is merely a coincidence that social mobility began a steep decline some 40 years ago at the very moment that the then Labour Government started the dissolution of Grammar Schools. This socialist vendetta against academic excellence prevailed again when one of the first acts of the Blair Read the rest of this entry