To change the mood a little... The German State elections in Hesse and Bavaria are very good for AfD and CDU, ok for the CSU, who seem to have lost ground, poor for the Greens and SPD and disastrous … (View Post)

Havering is very nearly Upminster !! East Ham is very nearly Barking. (View Post)

It's as always a question of money. Political parties, whether you think of them as businesses or not, need money to operate and they are now complex beasts with multimedia operations and a cons… (View Post)

This is the reality of weekend travel. People want to travel but the trains are often shorter than the weekday capacity and surprisingly they quickly get overcrowded. East MIdlands Railways put a 5-c… (View Post)

Indeed and shades of Yom Kippur in 1973 albeit not on such a large scale. There are plenty already trying to analyse the long term ramifications for Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and of course Gaza as w… (View Post)