The Cynical Tendency

In the next few days and after there is going to be a lot said about the two hundred year anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx in Tr...

Another day, another statue, this one the Millicent Fawcett suffragette. Whether these memorials of the past are there to inspire...

Naming of names, how about Karl Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Joseph Jeremy?

My nose hurts. As for many others it has been a bad few days. This is one story that tells the tale.  This is one way to look at...

The Windrush row is replete with grim ironies. Not least is the passenger ship that gave its name to the whole business, the Empire W...

In another blog a while back the writer accused the HMRC of playing "silly tax games" in its pursuit of raising tax from bu...

Down the decades, indeed centuries, the word "Landlord" has always been one that produces an adverse reaction. There are man...