Here’s a quote from Dr Simon Walker, a military historian at the University of Strathclyde:

“Therefore by the middle of the war it would not be unusual for Sikh soldiers to serve side by side with their Bri […]

Should we also stop buying records and books from charity shops? The artists see nothing at all from these sales.

We had a menu through the door the other day from a local Indian takeaway. On the front was a recommendation from Ed Miliband, who lives nearby. Ed Miliband! He was leader of the opposition for five years! It […]

I agree. I think that Labour would have struggled to deliver even a fraction of their manifesto, as from Corbyn on downwards they have almost no-one with any experience of the implementation of policies (Keir […]

And now over to Gyles Brandreth, for his regular Fifty Years Ago slot.

Thanks Sally. Well, this week I have once again been looking through an old parish magazine from 1969 to see what was inspiring the regular […]

Does anyone go for those Boxing Day walks which the papers also seem to think are traditional? And midnight mass, It’s a Wonderful life on TV, playing charades, wearing Christmas jumpers, inviting all the n […]

Spencer Dryden of the Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage, was the nephew of Charlie Chaplin, but apparently kept it quiet for most of his life, even from his bandmates.

More typical MSM, Corbyn-baiting neo-liberal trolling from notorious right-wing rag the, er, New Statesman.

“But the essential judgement that must be made is on Mr Corbyn himself. His reluctance to apologise f […]

Shame. He used to drink in a pub near the Tate Gallery when I worked around there, and was always open to a chat. One of my colleagues was from Trinidad and they often talked about the West Indies. When they […]

We had a Labour canvasser around last week, and this seat was the 32nd safest at the last election, with a Labour majority of 30,000. The MP, Keir Starmer, is also personally popular as he does a lot of […]

One of my friends told me that he saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park (I think) in the seventies. Memory may have slightly distorted this, but he said they started up, John McLaughlin hit […]

Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name of the wit on Twitter who said a boomer is someone you don’t like who is older than you, and a millennial is someone you don’t like who is younger than you.

Possibly it is – it’s often said that some of Corbyn’s circle like Seamus Milne and Andrew Murray are genuine admirers of Stalin. But as well as the moral objections to harassing whistle blowers, I think there […]

For a good description of what institutional racism is, and why British Jews are worried about it in the Labour Party, there is a very good thread by Maajid Nawaz on Twitter, which he was also posted on […]

I’ve just been through Trafalgar Square, and they’re putting up the stalls for the Christmas Market, a tradition which I think goes all the way back to this year.

They probably would have started yesterday, but […]

I heard Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais on a radio chat show a couple of weeks ago, and one of the other guests mentioned scrumping for some reason. Neither of them knew what the word meant. I’ve never heard a […]

They complained that the pay was chicken feed.

(I did enjoy that, so thanks for posting it. )

I suppose Ringo was comparing Brexit to the breakup of The Beatles, and remembering how quick, straightforward and amicable that was.

Yeah, it was supposed to prove beef was safe – but you never saw her again, did you?

Just saying.

I happen to work near Trafalgar Square and was one the people whose travel was disrupted by these protests. Well, if you work in Central London you get used to this kind of thing. I have an interest in climate […]