Catholic. Depressed since 1536. Seething since 1688. But.....Dum spiro spero. Politics? Disraeli advised by Ernest Bevin. A Reactionary. Damn the Whigs.
London, for its sins.
Joined February 2022
- Tweets6.9K
- Following202
- Followers286
- Likes58.4K
Pinned Tweet
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
G.K. Chesterton
Mark Bailey retweeted
If I saved money I wouldn’t have spent it. I am clever.
You’d all be writing articles about how it’s inmoral to have all this money invested jn the stock market when we could have spent it on the NHS etc…
NEW
Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund…
As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
This Catholic Englishman is also a Zionist .
p.s There is no genocide. She doesn’t work for the BBC.
After the disgusting, abusive behaviour this morning of self-confessed Zionist, @Jo_Coburn, what is the BBC going to do about her? Any pretence of impartiality is gone. She is a supporter of the terrorist state of Israel and a genocide-denier. #bbclaurak
Has any periodical fallen as fast as the @spectator?
Almost entirely unreadable now. A Kemi puff piece guaranteed every week and the rest reminiscent of the old Femail in the DM.
More vinegar, less syrup would be a start.
It’s what happens when your party in national government, motivated by political malice, cuts their funding by 40%.
Wandworth Tories ended Access For All tonight, Britain’s best concessionary scheme.
You get 50% to 100% off on sports and leisure, key council services and special days out.
Access for All breaks down barriers and makes sure all residents have an equal chance to access the amazing opportunities Wandsworth creates.
Every childhood can include top-class culture, playing a sport and going to the Battersea fireworks. No one has to feel like a second class citizen.
10,000 people signed up and enjoyed more than 100,000 sessions. From free gym and swim to half price weddings and pest control.
It’s helped with the cost of living - and helped to heal some of the divides in Wandsworth life.
Cutting it won’t save much money at all, as most of the offers are funded by smart deals with private sector partners (such as Lime, leisure operators and Go Ape).
The Tories are ending Access For All because it a Labour scheme - and because they disagree with its goal of equality
Mark Bailey retweeted
China's pyramid become increasingly shaped like a funeral urn.
Also nuts that you can still very clearly see the impact of the Great Leap Forward!
Mark Bailey retweeted
Great chart in @London_Centric
Newham contributes almost as much income tax as Manchester? Islington more than Birmingham? Fascinating
Unbelievably, I’ve just discovered that Boomers - I’m one - have spent £4.5 trillion (in 2026 £) more in public spending than they have raised in revenue (1963-today). We deserve a spanking.
Mark Bailey retweeted
I’m gonna propose the Shut Up, Nerds Act:
* Indoor smoking is legal again
* Smoking and drinking age is 16
* Open containers legal again as long as your BAC is under a generous legal limit
* As many people as you want in your car, because this is America
I predict the birth rate will double in ten years.
Mark Bailey retweeted
It’s the perverted belief that your inherent decency depends entirely upon the political beliefs you espouse as opposed to how you actually behave towards other people.
Mark Bailey retweeted
I think it was Salinger, in one of his rare late-life interviews, who noted that the protagonists of M*A*S*H are scum and that the authority figures they’re undermining are vastly morally superior. He touched on something extremely important, which is that the purpose of the Jester today is to speak Power to Truth.
