Straight to the point

This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.…

Vegetarianism has become fashionable (for some very strange reasons). The following list was compiled in 2008 but is just as valid now as it was then.

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down fat

Sunak, Britain’s very left wing Chancellor of the Exchequer, is continuing his war on pensioners – and the Government’s secret plan to see 250,000 pensioners die of cold and hunger next winter.

In a vain and pretty damned obvious attempt …

Some of the truth-tellers appear to me to becoming rather institutionalised. A word of warning: beware of people offering sponsorship, advertising money or financial support. The drug companies use fronts (which may appear to be NGOs or charities) to distribute …

Everyone is disgusted that Boris Johnson and assorted aides and civil servants ignored the lockdown rules they’d created. And they should be disgusted.

Anyone other than civil servants would be fined and sacked for such foul behaviour.

Some commentators seem …

Sri Lanka is in terrible financial trouble because of the global crisis deliberately created by the sanctions against Russia. Around another 69 countries are now in dire straits as they struggle to cope with rising food prices, rising energy prices