Opinion from GRANDPA1940 The UK Government announced to the world that they were setting up a conference to deal with the International Crisis and Humane Scandal of the huge numbers of seafarers languishing on board ships of ...
Opinion from GRANDPA1940 We, here in these windswept Islands, have had, certainly for the last thirty years, political leadership in the form of either chancers, liars, fools, charlatans and, in the past few months, a ...
Opinion By GRANDPA1940 In among the many strange ways of America’s New Left, some statements and actions stand out for their absurdity. I call the present Democratic Party the New Left, so as to distinguish ...
By Grandpa1940 Opinion It pleases me greatly to learn that, even in the world of multi-millionaires who drive and work in the Formula One universe, where private jets and helicopters abound, there are more than ...
When HMRC receive the statistics regarding P.A.Y.E. tax take, V.A.T., Corporation Tax for any quarter of any year, they check backwards, and very soon will be able to see the health of the economy. Politicians ...
By Grandpa1940 Opinion Piece I am a subscriber, and a contributor to an outfit named TheyWorkForYou. For those Brits who do not know, this group of people collate information such as what your MP is up ...
For what is possibly the very first time, I find myself in both lockstep and agreement with David Lammy; an MP whose statements I have commented upon once or twice before. I recall the time ...
When we read of the death by murder or manslaughter of a defenceless child, a death which should have been prevented by officialdom, by Social Workers who, either by incompetence, or an inability to see ...
OPINION I recoil at the faux compassion spoken by the BBC interviewer during the interview with the grieving Zoe Davis in regard to her twin dead sisters, including the words “and then for them both to ...
OPINION By GRANDPA1940 Being a former Engineer Officer in the British Merchant Navy, I look upon the sea as part of my life, and I still read many maritime articles and online magazines. I chanced ...
