Yet again I listen to an interview about the current arguments, proposals concerning the British Constitution. What role the Judiciary in the new era? A supreme Court etc? What role the House of Lords? Should it be elected or nominated? Nominated?! What a joke! It should be elected! This is a democracy! But the answer always comes back...if it is elected that will give it legitimacy and it may use its democratic mandate to frustrate the will of the people as expressed in the House o...

So this week the New Conservatives have distanced themselves from grammar schools. It is their version of abandoning Clause Four! But wait….they fully endorse the Blairite “Academies” and indeed have announced that they want to increase the spread of them if elected to the Reichstag (Ed ;sorry, House of Parliament) at the next Putsch (General Election). Now, im not one to be cynical, but academies have all the ingredients of grammar schools! As far as I understand it after 3 years Acad...

Ok. Here is the problem: I like to smoke a pipe. The Uk Government has now banned smoking in all public enclosed places. The import taxes on tobacco are high. The range of pipe tobacco i can buy in UK, whilst Ok, is meagre in comparison with the USA. Even to the extent that some pipe tobacco actually manufactured here in the UK is not available here...but is in the USA!! (Tobaciana Esoterica). Even in the apparently consumer friendly times the internet is not much of a help either. I sho...