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K.M. Breakey
Britain on the Brink
Independently published
“They say I’m radicalized,” said Ozzie, as if reading Jack’s mind. “Bollocks. I’m de-programmed, that’s all. I see the world as it is. I’m no bloody criminal. I’m a patriot who’s had enough.” (more…)
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A ceramics business in Stoke, in the Midlands of England, closed this month. Moorcroft Potteries’ problems were economic, but they were not failings of the business itself, rather the imposition of new financial strains on the company which it could not support. Facing the highest energy prices in Europe (by some margin), carbon taxes with which other countries do not have to weight their prices for British import, and yet another rise in National Insurance contributions (which has always been income tax by another name), the old and respected company went into official receivership, the executioner’s block of the business world. (more…)
2,120 words
Government Efficiency
Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour government have taken far too much flak for my liking, and it’s time to defend the old school tie and point out Labour’s successes since a handful of people tore themselves away from daytime TV to vote them into office in July. After a string of electoral losses to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at local level, Labour were facing another round of defeats in similar elections next May, and have come up with a foolproof plan to avoid these drubbings at the ballot box. Like all the best plans, it is brilliantly simple. Don’t have the elections. (more…)
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Advanced robotics
Brassneck was a cartoon robot schoolboy from a popular comic I read as a young lad in the 1960s, The Dandy. Older British readers will also remember this comic’s great rival, The Beano, and Dennis the Menace (which was very different from the American Dennis). (more…)