EU elections: a blue square brick in blue square hole situation; only idiots would vote
Such is the Government’s control of the means by which perception is managed, it is very hard to gauge the success of its attempt to have people want to take part in next month’s once redundant, now “necessary” EU elections. ConservativeHome, which is rather like the internet headquarters of the Tory party, commissioned a poll of membership More...
Delegitimising Parliament: why “we the people” must stop voting
Brexit: an example, par excellence, that British Government, which organises Parliament to these ends, is not about representing, let alone producing what voters want; it is about driving through what it wants, More...
Taxation truly is theft: a “sitrep”
In a long running dispute between the household from whence FBEL issues forth (let’s put it like that), hereafter referred to as us/we, and the local authority (the Council), the former, as a co-defendant, has More...
Old lessons found in surprising places: Sitcom, Aristotelian liberalism, and social engineering
When one refuses to consume the programming that constitutes television broadcasting, it is impossible to contrast old school insult-driven, dialogue heavy, one-liner situation comedy with whatever is being produced More...
So, the British Government is entirely corrupt. What happens next?
Last week, the Russian envoy to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) brought Syrian witnesses to Brussels. They were people who told a story of a fabricated chemical weapons attack on More...
BBC “silent weapon” damaged and vulnerable to increasing refusal to pay licence fee
The people at the BBC are worried; it said so in a National Audit Office document entitled TV Licence Fee Collection; Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General presented to the BBC Trust Value for Money Committee. More...
“Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”, Parts 2 & 3; Trump, Twitter & The Matrix
This is the second article on “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”, and it was promised, in the first of the series, to be about “the use of media for creating diversion and confusion”. How lucky we are, then, More...
English Civil War, American Revolution, Catalonian Independence, Brexit
As the reader probably knows, there have been two very high profile independence referenda recently; in Iraq, the one largely in the territory now identified as “Kurdish”, but that has historically been conquered More...
For “Strong and stable” read “Stronger In” (or no UKIP, no vote)
This article is actually the third and last one in the series “The Tory Fake Brexit Candidates” (first two here, and here), but there is a broader point to make, thus the irregular title. It should also be the More...
High Court attempts to secure Westminster Vassal for EU
An individual has a right to self defence, but in the modern political climate his enemies will try to convince him that he doesn’t by telling him that if he exercises his right, then he is being violent, or an More...