Sep
3
Climate Change Battle with East Hants DC Goes On
September 3, 2010 | Comments Off
After some weeks, the chief executive of East Hampshire District Council has responded to my letter criticising his council’s stance on supposed man-made climate change.
The nub of his letter is contained in the sentence “Following government guidance and information that we receive we believe that climate change is an issue to the district.”
I have copied [...]
Aug
3
More Arrogant Impertinence from Brussels
August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
So the EU bureaucrats want a full seat at the United Nations…and they demand £150 million from us for not flying what they choose to call their ‘flag’ over supposedly part-EU funded projects in the UK..
Not that we needed any reminding, but these two recent news items demonstrate – yet again – the arrogant impertinence [...]
Aug
1
Tribute to Christopher Story
August 1, 2010 | Comments Off
Only a day or so ago I finally heard that my distinguished friend Christopher Story died on 14th July 2010 (Bastille Day – the symbolism of which would not have been lost on him). He apparently suffered liver failure.
He had been complaining of not feeling well for some months, had recently skipped a trip [...]
Jul
28
Fools Rush Into Turkey
July 28, 2010 | Comments Off
So this Coalition government wants to see Turkey inside the EU. David Cameron’s visit to Ankara this week leaves no doubt.
He apparently thinks that giving the right to live and work in the UK to another 80 million Muslims is sensible. Well I do not. Nor, I suspect, do millions of others in the UK, [...]
Jul
26
Climate Change Rubbish from East Hants
July 26, 2010 | Comments Off
My district council (East Hampshire) has just filled its latest quarterly magazine with the most ridiculous, ill-judged scare stories about so-called ‘climate change’. Utterly irresponsible.
I wrote to the editor and he has refused to publish my response. So today I sent the Chief Executive of the Council the following letter.
If anyone feels like writing as [...]
Jul
3
Analyse Costs:Benefits of All EU Legislation – Mark 2
July 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Now A Letter to Farnham Herald Newspaper Group
Following my recent blog on the benefits of a full cost:benefit analysis of all existing and future EU so-called ‘laws’, copies of my proposals have gone to all known sympathisers in the Houses of Commons and Lords.
No national newspaper has printed a word on the idea, despite [...]
Jun
9
Huge Savings from Cost:Benefit Analysis of EU Laws
June 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Huge Savings from Cost:Benefit Analysis of EU Laws
- And Authority to Make Them
If the Coalition government is serious about cutting unnecessary expenditure, the cost of compliance by the public sector to EU regulations and directives must be a prime target.
In answer to a direct question, the European Commission told me at a [...]
Jun
3
Iran Does Have Weapons-Grade Uranium
June 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Two news items in the media over the last day or so oblige me to break silence on Iran’s acquisition of weapons-grade uranium. They have had it for several years.
Today the Daily Express reports that Iran has “two tons of uranium” which “would be enough for two nuclear warheads”. Yesterday the Philadelphia Inquirer [...]
May
23
Three Dangerous Ideas from Two Radical College-Boys
May 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Neither of our two new whiz-kids on the block has yet seen his 44th birthday. Yet, with the certainty of youth and a self-confidence scarcely justified by experience, they feel they already know enough about British parliamentary democracy to take it upon themselves to make fundamental changes.
They say they want to be [...]
May
21
Which Laws To Repeal?
May 21, 2010 | Comments Off
It really is quite extraordinary.
Our new, naïve, deputy prime minister finds himself in the second most powerful job in the nation after losing seats at the general election. But he doesn’t know which laws to repeal.
If that paragraph was from Alice in Wonderland no-one would be surprised. But this is the United Kingdom [...]







