THE DUCHESS OF PORK
While it may seem odd to my readers, I do believe in a Constitutional Monarchy over a Republic. A titular head outside of politics brings a certain stability and credibility to government that a politically appointed head of state can’t. For instance all judicial appointments in Constitutional Monarchies are made through the crown. Having the [...]
POOR OLD BP
Great Britain once was a great country, full of pride and less than 100 years ago the most productive nation on earth. Now reliant upon financial services for 35% of its gross national product, most former industrial cities look almost the same as Detroit excepting the local populations are dominated by new immigrants from the [...]
BUREAUCRACY GONE CRAZY
The Tea Party’s platform of less tax and less government would go across far better in Europe than it does here. Every time I go to the post office and get stuck in a half hour long queue (looking at ten windows with clerks behind only two of them) and all I want to buy [...]
AN ENGLISH “INSTITUTION” BECOMES A DEBT RIDDEN SUBSIDIARY OVERNIGHT
Even in Great Britain, a country which has had culture snatched from it by indiscriminate immigration and being a member of the EU, is up in arms over losing Cadbury’s a 200 year-old Birmingham-based “institution” majority-owned and run until recently by the Quaker Cadbury, to plastic cheese maker Kraft Foods. Kraft, thanks to Wall Street [...]






