Lucky Feller – The Unknown Sitcom

If I was to tell you of an old sitcom starring David Jason about two working-class brothers living by their wits in a council flat in south-east London, one a wide-boy the other a bit simple, what do you immediately think of? Only Fools And Horses, I presume. The...

Debt Bomb with Max Keiser

Last week I was interviewed by Max Keiser on The Keiser Report in a show entitled, Debt Bomb.  My bit is from 12.20. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WbIYsqa1A[/youtube] Many thanks to Stacy Herbert for organizing this. The show clearly his a big following....

A.J.P. Taylor – A Libertarian?

A.J.P. Taylor is regarded by many as the finest British historian of the 20th Century.  His most celebrated book was probably English History, 1914-1945. It was the final volume in The Oxford History of England chronicles and outsold all the others combined. My father...

Ross Ashcroft

This article was original published at Bleeding Cool (in April 2012) A TALE OF PLAGIARISM – I WROTE ONE OF THE YEAR’S MOST ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARIES, NOT THAT YOU’D KNOW IT  The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as follows: plagiarism...

Ben Anderson

This is an interesting interview about the war in Afganistan – and indeed the wars throughout the Middle East and elsewhere – with journalist and filmmaker, Ben Anderson. Recommended....