HARBINGER

And so it goes..on and on..and well,pretty much as predicted and it didn't take much inspired guesswork to identify  " Brexit " or what's left over of it as being the herd of elephants in the very very tiny room of UK parliamentary political discourse. The European Union and its various constituent satrapies are busily tearing themselves apart,rancour and malice leavened by invective and counter-invective are keeping the grand - petomaine pantomime that is the Germanic Greater European Union in the headlines. The Populist government in Italy is siding with Hungary and its eastern confreres and stirring the extra,bonus pot of Gilets Jaunes discontent to destabilise an already shaky Macron regime that resorts to brutality and violence in its efforts to stem or at least deter the Yellow Vests' tsunami of protests. Whether or not our own desperate and increasingly dysfunctional EU puppet regime survives the epoch defining date of March 29,is a moot point. Howev...

Usually I post a blog every 3 to 4 days throughout the month. In a typical year I make about 100 annual posts. December just ended was a pretty low aggregated total; why? because there was naff all to post anything new about. Syria  - The Balkan Wars I & II for our Age continues to sink ever deeper into an already unfathomable sociopolitical /  geopolitical strategic imbroglio,even with Trump's announcement of a US withdrawal and Erdogan -led Turkey's continuing ceaseless impatient pawing of the ground like some slavering,psychotic dog of war raring to get at the Kurds. In calmer climes, Brexit or rather what's left of it, is being slowly slowly shoved into a coffin that obviously is just a little too tight for comfort but nevertheless the metropolitan domiciled elites are wearying ever so slightly of their ludicrous pretend-antagonisms over a matter they all agree should never have been put before the People in a binding plebiscite in the first place. Whether t...

Contemporary politics is  so exciting right now ;  Gilets Jaunes  are setting the agenda in France; Germany has a burgeoning populist movement/Party in the  AfD . Italy has an activist Coalition government  Lega /M5S that's seemingly prepared to mix it with the EU over national budget and debt issues. And so on and so forth. Belgium has a minority government that's falling apart,as governments invariably do in Belgium, Hungary and Poland are both somewhat at loggerheads with the overbearing and tyrannical EU over domestic laws and the exercise of sovereignty. And in the UK? Theresa May -former Anglican Tea Lady of the Year - has "won" a vote of confidence among her own party's parliamentary representatives by 200  to 117.Which resolved let alone solved absolutely nothing regarding the on going post-modern performance installation art work known as Brexit. The 19th Century FPTP,single member constituency form of parliamentary representation ossi...

In May 2017 ,avowed "modernising" technocrat, fanatical devotee of alrger European Union and admirer of Tony Blair -Macron became President of France after defeating Marine LePen in the run off 66-34%. And 19 months later his Presidency has reached its apogee. Herewith the following gleaned verbatim, from  The Spectator  on December 3 , the first part of a a scintillating article from Brendan O'Neill; " At last, a people’s revolt against the tyranny of environmentalism. Paris is burning. Not since 1968 has there been such heat and fury in the streets. Thousands of ‘gilets jaunes’ stormed the capital at the weekend to rage against Emmanuel Macron and his treatment of them with aloof, technocratic disdain. And yet leftists in Britain and the US have been largely silent, or at least antsy, about this people’s  revolt. The same people who got so excited about the staid, static Occupy movement a few years ago — which couldn’t even been arsed to march, never mind riot ...