Dwight  Eisenhower was a five-star general in the US Army during World War II. He became the first supreme commander of NATO.  In 1953 he successfully campaigned to become the 34th President of the United States. This Republican was a Military President. His speech on leaving office in 1961 should not be overlooked for its […]

This column hasn’t become a tribune for UKIP, honest. In fact, I was determined to write about something – anything – other than party politics, but then I read this article by Toby Young and my good intentions went out the window. It didn’t anger or frustrate me so much as remind me how much […]

You may not be able to tell it from my name but my family are actually refugees from Chechnya in Southern Russia. My father was a prominent member of the Islamic International Brigade, fighting for Chechen independence from Russia. To realize his dream of an independent state of Chechnya he had no option but to […]

Why do we need some new rules? Because the old ones were written in the 70s by a Marxist community organiser called Saul Alinsky. He had some useful ideas, many of which we can steal or adapt. But some of them are ill-expressed or incoherent. Eg Rule 10 “The major premise for tactics is the […]

Did you see it?  Did you hear it? The moment that Orwell was quoted in the Queen’s Speech.  OK, she didn’t have to quote the line in full. But it was there… “He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past.” I am a big fan of […]

So the Tories took a kicking in the local elections, but they’re determined to win the voters back. Not with that malodorous potpourri of policies, they won’t. Until they’re prepared to ditch their Third Way politics and acknowledge the anxieties of their chief constituency, the voters they’ve lost won’t be coming back. The problem is […]

My fault this is up late, I hadn’t expected Marx to be working on a Bank Holiday Monday…must be all that sunshine. Ed   Without doubt the most pernicious piece of legislation passed by our current fascist government is a requirement that, in order to get my “jobseekers” allowance, I have to prove I’m actually […]

introducing our superb new columnist! Margaret Thatcher (not her real name) is middle-aged and exceptionally sound. I have been amused recently by the attacks on UKIP. Because I’m a woman who likes seeing others squirm with pain? Maybe. But that’s for a different web site. The reason is because I have predicted that this would […]