Hard Massage

BY JAMES BEMBRIDGE I am being admitted to a health spa today at my friend’s insistence. Before Health, there’s no word more offensive to my ear. How people can faff about with cabbage soup, yogic meditation or whatever the hell else it is these fanatics get up to, I’ll never know. And why is it that ‘wellness’ gurus always look so ghastly ill? I suppose … Continue reading Hard Massage

White Wednesday, Thirty Years On

BY ANDREW GIBSON Today, the 16th September, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the pound sterling’s suspension from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), an event that broke the credibility of the Major Government, emboldened the intellectual self-confidence of British Eurosceptics, and taught important lessons about the folly of large-scale state interventions in the economy. The episode also revealed John Major’s unattractive, low cunning. ERM membership was … Continue reading White Wednesday, Thirty Years On

Major Headache

BY JAMIE FOSTER Ex-Prime Minister John Major seems to have seriously lost the plot as he threatens to judicially review Boris Johnson if he decides to prorogue parliament to get a no deal Brexit through. Former British PM Sir John Major will "seek a judicial review" to prevent the next prime minister suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit #r4today https://t.co/MyWlMEV8nK pic.twitter.com/0aLl8Ej5H5 — BBC … Continue reading Major Headache