Black British Lives Matter was published last year but it was in the news again recently with Black History Month and a mention by Simon Webb on his YouTube channel. Subtitled A Clarion Call For Equality it is edited by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder. It would take up too much space to detail everything […]
In March 1986, Michael Groce was given a slap on the wrist for two firearms offences and walked free from Southwark Crown Court. In view of his previous convictions, he would normally have received a heavy sentence but the court was clearly sympathetic to him. He was said to have blamed himself for his mother’s […]
Some people are more important than others, whatever the intersectionality brigade claims. If you are a married man with two point four children, the most important people in your life should be your offspring, your spouse, and your extended family. If they are not, your wife should divorce you. Nevertheless, in the wider world some […]
If one excludes the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, the worst terrorist attack ever in peacetime Britain was the 7/7 London bombings of 2005. This saw four Islamist fanatics travel to the capital from the provinces and detonate bombs: three on London Underground trains, the fourth on a bus. These attacks in Central London caused the immediate deaths of 52 innocent people, those of the terrorists themselves, and the maiming of hundreds.
