Broad Oak Magazine

Since the Mandelson/Starmer matter questions are being asked about whether the Ministerial Code has been breached. This prompted me to look ...

The video below tells us something I hadn’t known and should have. In the summer of 1920 Lenin sent 200,000 soldiers into Poland with the ob...

Sir Keir claims the right to govern based on a freak electoral result but since then has repeatedly shown his contempt for democratic accoun...

The first part of the tweet below shows the way forward: People are rightly getting tired of the doom-mongers. If the gloomy prophets are r...

Last week’s session was truly awful, the PM completely ignoring Badenoch’s six direct queries and shouting about Nick Timothy and Iran. Even...

If you can’t nail a jelly to the ceiling you can catch it in a bowl. Kemi Badenoch has recently grasped the power of relentless persistence ...

From “History Defined” : In the 1600s, some monks in Germany only drank beer and water during their 40-day fast for lent. They concocted an ...

Her clothes got all the MSM comment, but then so did Disraeli’s flamboyant dress. We could do with some brightening up in Parliament to offs...

The internet is fizzing with demonisation of senior US political figures as the Epstein files are leaked. There are fantastic allegations of...

Jealous eyes are cast on the new MP for Gorton and Denton. The Daily Mail digs away at how this relatively young (34) plumber has come to c...

A repost from 2021 : Outside St Mary’s Church in Totnes stands a rough stone war memorial. At the foot of the cross are named over 100 men k...

The PM gave us the usual stuff today. Edward Argar (Con): Would Starmer scrap impending business rate changes? PM [ effectively] : … Mrs Bad...

As the Prime Minister rose both sides of the House cheered. “I did not think that the Prime Minister was so popular on the Opposition Benche...

If the fuses keep blowing maybe the toaster needs replacing. Morgan McSweeney, Tim Allan, who’s next? Has the PM’s position become un-Number...

 Some points arising out of the events of the last few days: Why has Peter Mandelson been given so many chances over the years? Would Starme...

To adapt the My Fair Lady song, “Why can’t a Yankee be more like a Brit?” It was fun watching Andrew Neil sizzling ever hotter on X as Pres...

Too much of our political judgment is simply visceral. If Starmer were a teacher the class would begin playing him up out of instinct, sensi...

A couple of days ago I watched a TV interview about a British radio serial called “The Archers.” It features a fictional Midlands community...

He’s done it again. Defying the Speaker’s displeasure, Starmer indulged in yet another time-wasting preamble, starting with a crack at Refor...