Curmudgeon Rants

Following Paul Nuttall’s failure to win the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, the future of UKIP as a party has been called into question....

One of the depressing aspects of life over the past few decades has been the steady replacement of comfortable, familiar British measurement...

When I started this blog, I have to say I saw it as little more than a howl of rage against the dying of the light. I didn’t really see much...

I was recently reading an article offering a post-mortem of the EU referendum result, which quoted a middle-aged man as saying “They just do...

In the 2014 UK elections for the European Parliament, UKIP topped the poll with 26.6% of the vote. It was recognised at the time that a subs...

You often hear people being spoken of in approving terms as being “socially liberal”, or indeed describing themselves as such. This seems to...

Elections have always been seen as a means of deciding who should make up the government. But, in recent years, there has been a growing vie...

It won’t come as a surprise to readers of this blog to learn that I am a strong, although not uncritical, supporter of UKIP. So I was very i...

In the 2010 General Election, UKIP gained a 3% share of the national vote. Recently, though, they achieved 22% in the Rotherham by-electio...

A recent proposal that teachers should be subjected to performance-related pay has been widely welcomed. Surely it will reward the conscient...