Category: Politics

How to Save the NHS

This is what came through my letter box. “No cuts, no closures, no privatisation.” What are these ninnies on about?

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Welcome, Mr President

I cannot contain my irritation at the protests about President Trump being invited to come here on a State Visit. Like people who commit crime in multi-storey car parks – it’s wrong on so many levels.

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Taking a Long View

Happy new year from a wet, windswept London. It’s a time of resolutions and prognostications for 2017 in the media but here at Blog Bellew HQ we take a longer perspective.

Cold War Curtain-Raiser

President Obama has ordered thirty-five Russian diplomats based in Washington to leave the country. What a feeble gesture compared to the magnificent score Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath notched up in 1971. Ninety in one innings and fifteen extras, as Sir Alec may have put it. 

Suez and Brexit; Keep the Aspidistra Flying

As the Suez Crisis unfolded, as with the war we waged in Iraq, it became clear that there had been a pretty big bish. International opinion consigned Britain and France to the dog house; petrol was rationed; the Prime Minister went to recuperate at Goldeneye (Ian Fleming’s house in Jamaica). George Lyttleton expressed his feelings… Continue reading Suez and Brexit; Keep the Aspidistra Flying

A to Z

Earlier this year I wrote a post, Two Principled Politicians, about Zac Goldsmith and Adlai Stevenson. They both came to mind again yesterday.

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Globalisation

Is globalisation good, bad or inevitable? It should be good. It should provide jobs and raise living standards in developing (euphemism for poor) countries.

St Yeghichè and St Cyprian

In a dictatorship when said dictator wants to impose his will he issues a Presidential Decree and at a stroke the dictator’s whim is law.   In the UK there are democratic elections and two chambers in parliament to debate and scrutinise legislation. That is unless something is too trivial to detain our politicians, such… Continue reading St Yeghichè and St Cyprian

An Ambassador in the Family

Nigel Farage has, it seems, struck up a rapport with President-elect Trump; an unlikely friendship as Trump doesn’t drink. Might Farage be a suitable UK ambassador to the United States?