Snouts in the Trough

Interesting article in the Bangkok Post this week about the collapse of South Africa’s education system. Apparently South Africa spends an impressive 20% of it’s budget on education. That’s the good news. The problem is that much of the money is stolen by corrupt ANC-friendly politicians and bureaucrats and never gets anywhere near schools or [...]

Our useless, self-serving, expenses-fiddling MPs bleed us dry with their taxes. They then take almost £500m of our money and hand it over in supposed “aid” to a corrupt state with nuclear weapons – Pakistan. First the Pakistani president, affectionately known by his people as “Mr Ten Percent”, takes his cut. Then other corrupt Pakistani [...]

The man-made global warming fanatics were having a great winter. Europe was having its warmest winter for decades. That allowed them to bleat on about how they were right and climate change sceptics were wrong. Then came the cold weather. In fact, the coldest winter since records began and over 120 people are dead. Woops. [...]

A new NATO report reveals what most people have always known – Pakistan is our enemy. The Pakistani government hid Osama Bin Laden in the one place they thought he would be really safe – in a compound just beside a huge military base. They assumed (wrongly) that nobody would dare arrack Bin Laden when [...]

Since the start of the financial crisis, we seem to have had an extraordinary number of EU summits where Liar Merkel and Liar Sarkozy tell us that they’ve solved the eurozone’s problems. Then a couple of days later we find out it was all a bunch of lies and the problems get worse. But this [...]

Drunk, wife-beater, historian and general philosopher, Mel Gibson, once famously claimed Jews were responsible for all the wars in the world. So let’s test Mr Gibson’s theory. In Thailand, Muslims are fighting Buddhists. No Jews there, Mel. In India/Pakistan Muslims are forever fighting Hindus. Not too many Jews there either, Mel. In Nigeria, Indonesia and [...]

If I write that the world’s richest and most corrupt people are currently holding their annual get-together, you might think I mean the World Economic Forum in Davos. After all, there are some pretty crooked and greedy liars and scum attending that. But the “good and great” at Davos are like angelic paupers compared to [...]

The unelected EU commissioners have already deposed the elected governments of Greece and Italy. Tomorrow they will probably make another power grab by taking control of tax and spending in Greece. Portugal will be next and then Italy and maybe even Spain will fall under the control of the unelected commissioners. Of course, the Greek and [...]

As Andy Murray puts up a spirited fight at the Australian Open, it’s worth wondering what happened to the other British players. They were all ignominiously knocked out in the first round. We give about £36m a year to the utterly useless Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). This is meant to develop new playing talent – [...]

While our papers and politically-correct BBC gush about the coming “triumph” of the 2012 London Games, the rest of the world is laughing at us. As governments around the world are forced to cut spending, Britain has been lumbered with the massisve waste of money that is the Olympic Games. These were due to cost [...]