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In decent families people stick by one another when they’re in trouble – especially when they haven’t actually been found guilty of anything other, perhaps, than naivety, a little arrogance and some stupidity. (Making that BBC programme exhibited all t…

Greens like to pretend that ethanol (fuel made from grains or sugar) is a new idea thought up by them.

It’s not.

In 1908, Henry Ford designed his Model T motor car to run on ethanol. And before that ethanol was used as motor fuel in Germany.

Ethanol…

The phrase ‘moral hazard’ describes the incentive to behave badly because someone is insulated from the consequences of his actions. It happens everywhere in the public sector.

Public sector employees have for years taken decisions in the comfortable …

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.

A friend had to go to th…

The evil UK Government (home for liars, cheats, frauds, fakers and party goers) is threatening to sack all health service employees who haven’t been jabbed.

I don’t think they will dare do this. If they do they will lose at least 10-15% of the NHS sta…

Mainstream media now say that large numbers of people were already protected from the coronavirus before the alleged pandemic started – because of previous exposure to the common cold. Why did it take them nearly two years to report the obvious truth? …

Deborah Turness, the BBC’s new Chief Executive BBC News (who will be paid £400,000) has a sense of humour!

According to the Daily Telegraph she said she is committed to ‘the BBC’s powerful brand of impartial, trusted journalism’.

I haven’t laughed so…