Greetings from the UK fellow Deplorables. Or perhaps, coming from the other side of the Pond, I’m a Lamentable, possibly a Woeful.
Be that as it may, I’m here, on this wonderfully and unapologetically American site because I believe strongly that the US and the UK are, or at least should be, close, natural and unshakeable allies.
Briefly, I'm a British patriot and constitutional traditionalist with distinct libertarian tendencies and I believe in the UK's independence from the EU.
Last year I posted a little piece on the 80th anniversary of the Blitz, the air assault on the UK between September 1940 and May 1941. https://billwhittlecom.wpenginepowered.com/the-blitz-80-years-on/ Last week we had a more concrete reminder of that time. Workmen at a building site in the city of Exeter, in England’s West Country, had a nasty […]
The news broke today of the death of the man known to the British public as Captain Tom. The one-hundred-year-old veteran of the Burma campaign in the Second World War who raised over £33 million for the NHS last year had become a celebrity and an icon of the efforts to control the CCP virus […]
In recent years it has become usual in the UK for details that might identify the ethnic, cultural and religious background of an offender to be left out of news reports where possible. This is especially true of the initial reports, the headlines that grab the most attention. The reason given is to help damp […]
56 years ago today, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died at the age on 90. He died in the early hours at his London home and his death was announced at 08.35. His funeral was at St Paul’s Cathedral six days later, he remains one of only a handful […]
The famous photo of Lenin, Stalin and Kalinin (not Trotsky).
As I am currently at my Mum’s place, I have seen a certain amount of broadcast TV. In particular, yesterday I saw about an hour and half of BBC coverage of the current CCP virus situation, including the live briefing by the Prime Minister and his scientific advisors. 90 minutes of speculation about what might […]
Ok, he’s had a longer honeymoon than Trump got. Here’s a Chinese Joe meme.
This post was inspired by the RA video on the new GM, sorry, gm, logo. Just the latest in a long line of woeful corporate re-brands. It reminded me of an early and especially egregious example from the UK. One that cost a lot of money and generated much embarrassment. Ladies, gentlemen, I give you… […]
The hyper connected world we live in throws up some odd stuff. This week has had quite a crop, forgive the introspection, this is my personal take on things. A drug addled petty criminal died in Minneapolis in May 2020 and now, in January, over 4,000 miles away I am getting involved in a campaign […]
Well, here we are, out of 2020 at last. Happy New Year everyone, I hope each and every one of you have a better year than last year, but forgive me if I’m not overly optimistic. I don’t think I’ve ever hoped for more from, and expected less from, a year than 2021. You might […]
The Kamala Harris Happy Kwanza video. It’s nauseating, it comes across as insincere, of course it does, it’s her, but is she telling the truth? Don’t laugh, stranger things have happened. Before you assume that the curmudgeonly Limey has finally succumbed to an excess of Christmas booze, remember that although on our side of the […]
Merry Christmas one and all. Hopefully you’ll all be to busy to see this until Boxing Day at least but all the best from Blighty. Many thanks for your fellowship in this rather trying year. Here’s a Christmas favourite of mine, enjoy.
I’m far from the first to point out how utterly atrocious, to the point of culpability, the media coverage of the whole Panda-demic has been. In both the US and the UK domestic political prejudices have been a huge factor. On both sides of the Pond the COVID-19 stick has been gleefully taken up to […]
Many, many moons ago I posted saying I thought the confusion over Covid 19 resrtictions was a bit overblown. Oh how things have changed. With the average age of death of covid victims slightly higher than the general average age of death and “covid related” death rates much much lower than during the inititial spike, […]