Brexit has turned the UK into an international laughing stock. At least this is one thing that both Brexiteers and Remainers can agree on. We approach the 29th March no nearer a solution to our membership of the EU than… Continue Reading
I have just finished reading one of the most interesting and enlightening books I have ever read. Parliament Ltd by Martin Williams is a book which everyone should read. If, as the new Independent Group say, politics is broken, this… Continue Reading
My formative years (my teenage years) were the 1980s. It was in the 1980’s that I really developed my deep interest in politics. I think it was always there but I became an ‘angry young man’ in the early 80s… Continue Reading
Today seven Labour MPs resigned the party whip and have formed an Independent group in the House of Commons. The seven are not particularly surprising and it was probably only a matter of time before something like this happened. The… Continue Reading
I enjoy using twitter. I’m trying to get into using Instagram. I’ve stopped using Facebook. What I’ve noticed over a significant period of time, particularly on twitter, is how debased debate (I use that word sometimes in its loosest sense)… Continue Reading
So over two years after the referendum it seems that Prime Minister May has finally reached an agreement with the EU for our eventual exit next year. The problem is that this deal pleases neither side of the remain/leave argument. … Continue Reading
My final story of men with links to Sheffield is about John William Streets – one of the lesser know War Poets. William – or Will as he was better known – was born in 1886 in Whitwell in North… Continue Reading
In my fourth of five posts looking at men with links to Sheffield and their experiences of the First World War, I look at William Barnsley Allen – a VC winner, doctor and almost certainly a PTSD sufferer. William was… Continue Reading
Today the third of five posts telling a brief story of a man with links to Sheffield and their experiences of the carnage of the First World War as we approach the 100th anniversary of its end. Today, Arnold Loosemore, a… Continue Reading
Today the second of five posts telling a brief story of a man with links to Sheffield and their experiences of the carnage of the First World War as we approach the 100th anniversary of its end. Today, Vivian Sumner… Continue Reading