Silvio Berlusconi has died today at the age of 86. It has been said that not a day has gone by in Italian news media over the past 50 years without him making headlines of some sort. He certainly was a larger than life character and a major figure on…
Henry Kissinger, a prominent figure in U.S. foreign policy, celebrated his 100th birthday on May 27, 2023. Known for his role as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, he is credited with pivotal moments like U.S.-China relations renewal and criticized for human rights issues in Latin America. His insights remain relevant in contemporary geopolitics.
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We were ou campaigning locally, doing #labourdoorstep for our Labour Party candidate here in Monmouthshire, Catherine Fookes. Out on this sunny Spring day today as can be seen from the photo, are Wez G, Severnside branch chairman, Henry Higgins, Cllr Angela Sandles (Magor / Undy), Cllr Frances John Crook (Magor…
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For our #labourdoorstep campaigning session today for the Labour Party we were up in Monmouth. The main goal, of course is to support the successful campaign of Labour candidate for Monmouthshire, Catherine Fookes. Today we were joined by a powerful rising star and cabinet politician from Welsh Labour. Jeremy Miles…
View More Labour Party campaigning for Catherine Fookes in Monmouth with Jeremy Miles MS
Caldicot is currently part of the Newport East constituency for Parliamentary elections. Therefore, our current MP is Jessica Morden. At the next general elections Caldicot and Magor and the Severnside area will be changing due to a constituency boundary change and w will become part of Monmouthsire where Catherine Fookes…
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This is just another one of the many books I’ve read on the security services / spies / intelligence agencies in general. I guess I have a morbid fascination. Non-fiction throws up some pretty weird stuff – Life itself is a lot stranger than fiction. This tale from a turncoat…
View More Review: Defending The Realm – MI5 and The Shayler Affair – by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding
I think everyone that has ever heard of Boris Johnson associates him with lies. Oborne, who is an established veteran political journalist, in this relatively brief text, exposes the extent of the former Conservative Prime Minister’s almost total aversion to the truth. He reckons Johnson has told over thousands of…
View More Review: The Assault On Truth – Boris Johnson and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism – by Peter Oborne
Today, we went out locally for Severnside branch of the Labour Party Jessica Morden MP from Newport East is still the Parliamentary political representative for us here prior to the boundary changes at the general election when Caldicot and Severnside area will become part of Monmouthshire contituency where Catherine Fookes…
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Alev Scott is a young female Brit whose mother has Turkish Cypriot roots and in this great study of modern turkey she relocates to Istanbul and immerses herself as much as possible in Turkish society Long time leader Erdogan, has done a lot to change Turkey in the past couple…
View More Review: Turkish Awakening – A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey – by Alev Scott
Thomas Paine is an important writer at an important time that bequeaths us in his ‘Rights of Man’ a fundamental shakeup of what our democratic rights as citizens should be, drawing especially on the French Revolution and also American Revolution and the fundamental rights that their new revolutionary societies produced…
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This book is quite old, first published in 1951, it dates from a period when the totalitarian reality of Hitler and Stalin were very much fresh in the mind. Hannah Arendt was a German Jew and this work is both philosophical, enlightening and gives a valuable educated insight into the…
View More Review: The Origins of Totalitariansm – by Hannah Arendt
This was my second day actually out doing #labourdoorstep – Today it was sunny Caldicot, my hometown. We met up at the local car park of Gray Hill surgery, near the town centre. We would be out today campaigning on behalf of our current MP, Jessica Morden, Newport East. It…
View More Labour Doorstep in Caldicot with Jessica Morden MP
Today was my first day out proper canvassing, doing #labourdoorstep – We were out in Garden City, Chepstow. It is part of the Chepstow Castle ward. Today was important as it was election day. We had a young lady candidate, Gemma Rosser, standing up against some pretty tough Conservative opposition,…
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What’s a grown 45 year old male doing reading a little Bosnian girl’s diary you might ask yourself. Well, it cropped up as a recommendation in a documentary on the war in the former Yugoslavia, a subject to which I have passionately researched from its genesis. The Balkans conflict is…
View More Review: Zlata’s Diary – A Child’s Life in Sarajevo – by Zlata Filipović
I have spent many years supporting the UK Labour Party. I have always voted for them when possible and I have found over the years the support of both Jessica Morden MP and John Griffiths MS, to be second-to-none, especially when helping with my End Of Terror Mental Health issues.…
View More Labour Party: Getting to Work for Catherine Fooke’s Election Campaign in Monmouthshire