Category Archives: News and politics

Dear Prime Minister, Some of us are dismayed at the news of your reluctance to send troops to protect the hapless people from the hands of the marauding ISIS. It is quite understandable the spectre of unjust invasion of Iraq … Continue reading →

  The curious attitude of the West towards the Ukrainian crisis would puzzle any sane person. As soon as the Kievan street mobs forced the Ukrainian parliament to declare the legitimately and popularly re-elected President as a persona-non-grata, our Foreign … Continue reading →

With horror I discovered from a leaflet picked up from a surgery that under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 our personal data with the NHS could be passed on to private organisations. The implications of the Act have … Continue reading →

 I am surprised and dismayed on reading the names of the perpetrators of this heinous crime. The first reported rape on a woman happened during the Calcutta Riot in 1946 when a Jat (Muslim) soldier from the Northwest Frontier regiment … Continue reading →

  Some spring, some life.       Hillary Clinton’s strident support for the advent of Arab spring is still ringing in our ears. One can visualise her flowing golden hair with her blood-red painted nails appealing to all good nations of the world … Continue reading →

On Saturday, 18th August Manchester saw a group of people winding their way towards the Town Hall, chanting and singing. But it was not a dirge, it was encomium for soon to be demolished the centuries old Ancoats Dispensary, obliterating the … Continue reading →

    English Captain John Terry,   The media’s self-righteous frenzy at John Terry’s romantic indiscretion is self-defeating. Even the quality papers, though somewhat restrained, still should not give so much space to such a common indiscretion which is very … Continue reading →

    The debate about our involvement in Afganisthan will continue unless the doubters open their mind and listen to what the Government is saying. I think our mission to Afganisthan is sound – nation building. But our strategy is … Continue reading →