This all happened shortly before the terrible events at the Boston marathon…
I am rarely on Twitter these days and about three weeks ago I wondered if Tom Harris, Labour MP for Glasgow South, had blocked me, like several of his comrades have. I tweeted to him:
“Testing. Am I blocked?”
To which he replied,
@stewartcowan Where the hell [...]

Occasionally, there is an article in the mainstream media which is as good as you will find on the best blogs: honest, well-written and fearless. James Delingpole wrote such a piece yesterday. I will reproduce it here, lest the Telegraph realise their mistake and pull it. Fasten your seat belts…
When George W Bush declared war [...]

The welfare bill has just passed by a majority of 56.
Apparently, “Britain’s poorest households will be hit hardest by government plans to limit rises in working-age benefits to 1% in a bid to save £3.1bn by 2016.”
That is equivalent to two months’ EU contributions!
Tory MP, Robert Halfon writes,
When it suits them, Labour have been the [...]

Q. What is the difference between Denmark, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom?
A. The politicians in Denmark, France and Ireland rejected the votes of the people on matters concerning the European Union and the people of the United Kingdom are rejecting the votes of the politicians on Monday night.
The mainstream media gives the impression that [...]

To all Members of Parliament,
Please vote on Monday to allow the people of the United Kingdom to have a say in OUR future. We demand the right to a referendum on EU membership, denied for so long and promised by Labour and Tory.
The time is now. Please don’t believe the following two common misconceptions:
1) The [...]

An oldie – and very vivid warning – from The Gates of Vienna (my emphasis throughout). It is worth reading the whole post, especially in light of this article out today: MPs warn over Turkey migrant risk to EU….
I know many Americans, and Europeans, too, have more or less written off Western Europe as lost [...]

Actually, it’s a belated “happy birthday,” as it was a year ago yesterday that the baby was born which would be known as ConDem. Tory sperm had met LibDem egg and a strange chimera grew: a creature that could simultaneously be conservative and liberal, supposed opposites.
On the face of it, these differences would seem impossible [...]

As usual on an election day, I trotted off to the polling station to perform my “democratic duty”. The first of the three ballot papers I tackled was the one to elect the constituency MSP. With only four candidates to choose from here in the Galloway and Dumfries West constituency – the usual four north [...]

AV defeated. Next: EU kicked out.

Congratulations are due to our previous Dear Leader, but some people are a bit miffed:
THE appointment of Gordon Brown as an adviser to a key world economic body met with anger last night.
Mr Brown, who saddled Britain with a huge debt during his time as Chancellor and Prime Minister, has been appointed as an adviser [...]