Special Guest Blogger: Oswald Mosley

In a recent poll I was included in the top 10 of the Worst British Villains which is ridiculous. In the 1930' s Britain was facing huge problems with unemployment and as part of the incoming Labour Government i made some radical proposals for tackling it which included a major programme of public works not dissimilar to the New Deal that followed in Roosevelt’s United States. Do I get any credit for this? No, I do not.
The Government were too timid to push for anything so radical as my major programme of works so the they built a public lido in Hyde Park, made a few concessions to the miners and authorised an extension of pensions and unemployment benefit so that's when i decided i had enough, threw a hissy fit and resigned and that's where the story changes.
Now going off in a sulk and forming just one fascist movement, allying yourself with Hitler and Mussolini, organising anti-Semitic marches through the Jewish East End and employing thugs to beat up your opponents amazingly suddenly made me the bad guy.
The problem with trying to introduce fascism to Britain was that the British are just piss takers, when i did the NAZI Salute in Parliament one MP shouted out 'Yes, you may go to the lavatory' but i was going to show them and my party with the new catchy slogan of ‘A Party of Vitality and Manhood’, held a huge rally and we did have support, the Daily Mail even ran the headline ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ although they were a little less enthusiastic after we were filmed beating up anyone who disagreed, and many did. After one meeting around seven thousand of my supporters were prevented from marching through a Jewish section of the East End by hundred thousand antifascist demonstrators and we abandoned the March.
To be fair the 1935 General Election was probably a bit too soon after launching the Party and i urged my supporters to abstain under the slogan ‘Fascism Next Time’.
As it turned out, next time would be in 1945, after the Fascists had caused the deaths of over a hundred million people, laid waste most of Europe and I had been locked up as a Nazi sympathizer, so next time would have been a bit of a long shot as well to be honest.

Special Guest Blogger: Arthur Machen

The First World War was a time when having seen thousands of British soldiers wiped out by machine guns, a million young men thought, that’s the life for me, and volunteered to replace them and the miltary eggheads sent over to France to see what happened this time when they were told to run towards German machine guns.
I was writing supernatural and fantasy fiction publish for literary magazines and had my first major success with 'The Great God Pan' and at the start of the war, as the first battle took place a short distance from Agincourt 500 years earlier, I had an idea for a short story based on the blending of that battle with the one happening today and it was published in the London Evening News and was called 'The Bowmen'.
My story was that under the fields of this corner of Europe lay British soldiers from the campaigns of Edward III and at this key moment in English history, the ghosts of Agincourt rose up from the ground and intervened on the English side but i had written it as a news report which was my style of writing which may have led to the later confusion.
What happened was Bowman work of fiction turned into real life as there were reports that medieval English bowmen had been seen by the soldiers and a St George Cross had appeared in the sky to inspire the English as the so-called ‘Angels of Mons’ conclusively proved that God was on the side of the English against the Germans.
These stories of apparitions and heavenly bodies were widely believed and many soldiers became convinced that they too had seen the angels, and the patriotic value of this divine intervention was so good for morale that it was encouraged by the clergy and the politicians although i did receive requests to provide evidence for the story from readers who thought it was true, to which I responded that it was completely imaginary and a story i had created.
Parish magazine's began asking me for permission to reprint the story and i said they could but to make it perfectly clear it was a made up story and not true but they missed that bit out obviously as it was a boon for the religious business and all this killing of Germans in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who, unless I’m grossly mistaken, was actually rather keen on tolerance and not murdering each other, but the snowball of rumour that was then set rolling has been rolling ever since, grew bigger and bigger.
By now the story had been embellished to soldiers finding the corpses of German soldiers that had been found on the battlefield with arrow wounds and then the British Spiritualist magazine ran with it as 'proof' with visions of a supernatural force that miraculously intervened to help the British at the decisive moment of the battle.
I tried to put and end to it by republishing the story in book form, with a long preface stating the rumours were false and originated in my story but even with the Society for Psychical Research announcing the stories of Angelic Soldiers was false, the rumours continued  with now even British officers saying they had seen things with one very high ranking Officer, General Charteris , saying he watched as an Angel of the Lord, clad in white raiment bearing a flaming sword, appearing before the German forces at the Mons battle forbidding their advance.
The tales only began to subside once the war was over but forever after i became associated with it and if i had known that i would have written it better because it was something i dashed off quickly because i was only going to get a pittance for it from the Newspaper. 

Special Guest Blogger: Jeremy Thorpe

In the mid-1970s British politics was rocked by a scandal which tell us much about 1970's Britain.
It involved the Old Etonian leader of the Liberal Party (me) who asked a friend to organise the assassination of his gay lover. The friend asked a carpet salesman, who asked a fruit machine salesman, whose friend hired an airline pilot – who ended up murdering the lover’s dog instead. As i said, it was the 70's.
I entered Parliament in 1959 and homosexuality was still stigmatised and only a few years earlier another peer had been imprisoned for ‘consensual homosexual offences’ but nobody suspected me as i had been maried twice and i made sure my 'secret' same-sex encounters happened out of view in public lavatories.
I met Norman Josiffe and after a brief and sweaty fling, dropped him soon afterwards but Norman wouldn’t let go and kept badgering me for money and threatening to expose our affair with some letters he had of mine so I began to wonder about bumping him off.
I mentioned this to David Holmes who was the assistant Treasurer of the Liberal Party although he wasn't keen on my idea of breaking Normans neck, or poisoning his drink in a pub and throwing his body down a mineshaft but as i was on the verge of becoming the leader of the Liberal Party, we put it on the backburner.
The newspapers loved me and described me as a breath of fresh air and in the 1974 election my Liberals won 20% of the vote and fourteen seats but Norman was still there and making threats so we returned to pressing on with the murder plan.
As David Holmes didn’t have anyone in his Filofax under A for Assassin, he asked John le Mesurier who was a carpet salesman from South Wales, who knew a man called George Deakin, who supplied slot machines who had a friend, Andrew ‘Gino’ Newton, who was willing to give it a go.
Gino was an airline pilot and the plan was to meet Norman and tell him his life was in danger and to come with him to a place of safety so they climbed into the car along with Normans dog and when they got to a quiet country lane, Gino got out the car, shot the dog and then went to shoot Norman but the gun jammed and Gino panicked and run off, leaving Norman convinced that I had just tried to have him assassinated.
Luckily, few people believed him and the blame was put on the South African intelligence services until 1976 when the Sunday Times printed some of my letters to Norman and i was arrested.
At my trial the judge acquitted me and called me 'a public servant of many years standing’, while Norman was 'a scrounger, parasite and hypocrite’ because what saved me was that Norman had struck many newspaper deals to receive more money if i went down.
My reputation never recovered and in the 1979 election all the voters that had come to us previously flocked back to the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher and i resigned and made several attempts at a comeback but it wasn't to be and i passed away from Parkinson's with a perfectly clean criminal record and leaving the Liberal Party in the safe hands of Paddy 'PantsDown' Ashdown who carried on the fine Liberal tradition of being a bit pervy.

Searching VPN

It may just be a magnificent coincidence that the recent interest in Virtual Private Networks (VPN) is due to a sudden fear of online security in the UK and users worried their browsing history will lead to targeted advertising but more than likely it has coincided with the Online Safety Act kicking in and porn sites now requesting proof of age for UK users.
You can draw your own conclusions that four of the top five free apps on the Apple download store in the UK are VPN apps and Google Trends data show that searches for 'VPN' have gone through the roof since Friday and these searches have been peaking between midnight and 2am.
Preventing children from seeing hardcore pornography is a noble aim but it cannot be denied that it is pornography enthusiasts who have been hardest hit by the Online Safety Act and i'm not here to judge the millions of Brits who do not wish to identify themselves but i am not hearing too many protests from the individuals involved.
Judging by the numbers, there are enough viewers of adult content to swing an election and punish this Government for the introduction if they mobilised into a group but it is hard to think of a bunch less likely to stand up and be counted.
Could mean a silent majority who will be angry enough to vote for anybody saying they will back track on this but they will not say so much on the doorstep when the local MP's come knocking on the door when we get closer to the next general election so beware that smile, the promise to vote for you and the warm handshake Labour MP's, that hand may be warm for a reason and i would keep plenty of hand sanitiser in your bag. 

Problems? What Problems?

Watching the images of Donald Trump envoy Steve Witkoff arriving at a peaceful, well-organised aid site in Gaza to see for himself what is going on there, reminded me of an incident in 2007 when American Senator and Iraq War cheerleader, John McCain, showed up at a Baghdad Market to show that Iraq was returning to normal thanks to the Iraq War he so vocally supported.
There he was confidently strolling down the middle of a Baghdad Street and then at the press conference afterwards he claimed: 'Things are getting better, there are encouraging signs' which was excellent news as long as the Iraqi's took the few minor precautions McCain undertook before his little jaunt.
All they needed to do to be as safe as McCain in their own nation whilst out shopping was to first send in soldiers to search for explosives, set up a perimeter and secure the neighbourhood, deploy snipers on rooftops, wear a flak jacket at all times, travel by a Humvee to the market and surround yourself with 100 armed soldiers while three Black Hawk helicopters and two Apache gunships patrol the skies above.
It really was that simple if the locals wanted to get back from the market-place in one piece and should be noted by the Palestinians who have been dying whilst being starved and forced to aid stations run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) where they are being shot at, over 1,000 killed so far by Israeli troops while waiting to collect food.
Witkoff, surrounded by Israeli troops, said it was an important gesture to show America cared about the humanitarian situation and 'to learn the truth' but as Mike Huckerbee who travelled with him later wrote that: 'GHF delivers more than one million meals a day, an incredible feat!' it doesn't suggest much confidence that what they report back to the White House will be entirely truthful.
You really do not need to go to a Gaza aid station to realise that driving a population to starvation and then offering them a morsel of food and then shooting at them in large numbers when they arrive for it is wrong in every way, then you have no business being involved in peace talks.
That said, as America has supplied the weapons, the funding and the political backing for the Netanyahu genocide, and that is exactly what it is, then nobody actually expected anything better from them anyway and the slaughter will go on until every Palestinians is dead or ethnically cleansed out of the place they call home, a process which will now be turbo charged as more nations including the UK say they will recognise a Palestinians State.

Your Party

Even though I understand that they have had to fix the economic mess the Conservative Party left them, to say i am disappointed in the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an understatement which is why i have been glad to hear of the new Left Wing Party that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are cobbling together.
They have not yet announced any policies but the Mission Statement on the new Parties website gives us a glimpse of what we can expect with it's denouncement of 4.5 million children living in poverty in the sixth richest country in the world and where the government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war.
It goes on to call for a mass redistribution of wealth and power, taxing the very richest in our society and bringing energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership and standing up to fossil fuel giants and ends with attacking the government’s shameful complicity in the Israeli genocide.
While reading it my first thought was, wow, reads like something I had written because that pretty much hits every subject i have been raging against for decades so the Party ticks every box for me but then i was Team Jeremy back in the day anyway, i just thought he was a little to the left for most people, and by that i mean the people who vote because while his ideals were widely popular with the the younger voters, they do not vote in the numbers the older voters do and the grey vote is right wing so he just wouldn't get the numbers required.        
In the first week of it being announced, the party has received over 600,000 sign-ups at it's website and is in the process of forming a steering committee for the new party ready for the founding conference later this year and been asking members, disillusioned Labour politicians and left wing journalists for ideas on how to proceed and my own suggestion to them?
Join forces with the Greens and the left wing independents but most importantly, for crying out loud come up with a better name than 'Your Party'.

Special Guest Blogger: Norse God Vili

How you like the Earth? Not bad considering it was made by me and my brothers from the left over bits of a giant is it.
In the beginning and before you humans, there was nothing but a great wasteland of ice and snow, stretching between the Cloud Land of the north and the Land of Fire in the south. Sparks from the Land of Fire melted some of the ice and its drops formed into Ymir, father of the giants.
As he lay sleeping he gave birth to giants from his armpit (yep, his armpit). He was nourished by Audumla, a cow which appeared out of the melting ice, and as Ymir drank the milk from her udders she licked at the ice until it revealed a being named Buri. He had a son named Bor, who married Ymir's daughter Bestla and fathered me and my brothers.
We wanted to create a new World but our father liked things as they were so we killed him as a necessary act for creation built the Cosmos out of his body, using his flesh for the earth and his salty blood for the sea.
We changed his hair into trees and his bones into mountains, and when this work was done we raised his skull on four pillars so that its curved interior might become the sky.
Sparks drifted over the earth from the Land of Fire and we caught some and placed them within the skull of Ymir to  become the Sun, the Moon and the stars and planets.
Happy with our work we looked to craete you humans and when we saw two dead trees, we changed them into the first man and the first woman, Ask and Embla.
As I was the Norse God of intelligence,  touch and sense i passed them on to the first humans and Odin gave them a soul and life life and then we finally handed them to Vé who finished up with the speech, hearing, and sight.
Of the three of us it was Odin who went on to become the most prominent and inspire the whole Santa Clause thing along the way but Vé abd I would stay at home with his wife, Frigg, and ruled in his stead and we was happy with that.

Special Guest Blogger: William Rufus

All brothers experience a certain amount of jealous rivalry, just that our sibling rivalry began with pouring urine on to one another from the castle ramparts and evolved into raising armies against one another and having my little brother assassinate me so he could be King. I blame the parents for it all honesty.
Due to my  red-faced complexion i was nicknamed Rufus and due to my long blond hair, never marrying and dressing in the height of fashion people assumed i was gay.
Another clue may have been the 'fornicators and sodomites’ as they were called who were favoured at court during my reign, a little clue there for the eagle-eyed historians.
This didn't prevent me being every bit as ruthless as my Father William the Conqueror and blinded and castrated those who opposed me and many did when i piled on the taxes to pay for my extravagant lifestyle.
The Church didn't like me because i had no time for all things religious, instead of appointing an Archbishop of Canterbury i took all the rents for myself and they were not particularly impressed that Church income should have been spent on fancy curly-toed shoes and silk trousers.
My big brother Robert meanwhile was becoming the hero of Christendom as he liberated Jerusalem from the Turks in the first crusade but i got rather less credit for my campaigns against the Welsh and the Scots, I captured Carlisle for crying out loud.
I travelled the country imposing myself as a guest on various noblemen around my kingdom at little or no notice and they were expected to welcome me with great feasts and entertainments and generally paying for everything until the we got bored and decided to move on.
So after a dozen years on the throne, I was unpopular with the Church establishment, despised at home and abroad and had behaved badly towards my younger brother Henry, the most likely heir to the throne and I became increasingly paranoid, particularly after my nephew was killed by an arrow in the New Forest.
All of which makes my own death three months later in the same place all the more suspicious.
We were out hunting when an arrow pierced my heart and my body was left slumped against a tree and although i didn't see who it was, my younger brother Henry dashed to get himself crowned King just three days later.

Farage On Side Of Sexual Predators

I have never understood the appeal of Nigel Farage, he was the cheerleader for Brexit and when it happened it shaved billions off our GDP and made us economically poorer but there are still some dimwitted people who are keen to hand him the keys to what is left of the British economy.
The fairytale economic policies  he has farted out so far are so unrealistic that economists are ridiculing them but undaunted he continues to spout them and some people lap them up.
His latest failure has been to say he would reverse the Online Safety Bill which came in this week and restricts what under 18's can access online in the UK but which Farage has attacked as 'restricting free speech' which then led to accusations from the Government that Farage was on the side of predators, people like Jimmy Saville.
Farage is now demanding an apology but none of forthcoming as they explain that the legislation is: 'Absolutely essential for protecting children and young people from sexual predators and from seeing totally inappropriate content online'.
The Government are right on this, the only people concerned with restricting what children can access are the very people you would not want you children coming across on the Internet so it is doing what it is designed to do.
The new regulations mean sites hosting adult content like pornography will need to have age verification in place and Social media sites will need to make sure their algorithms aren't pushing harmful content to young people and face fines and penalties if they do so if Nigel Farage or anyone are saying they want to repeal the Online Safety Act, then they are on the side of the predators such as Jimmy Saville who without a doubt, if Social Media had been around in his time, would have been using it to achieve his wicked aims.

Britain Finally Changes Policy On Israel

The Israeli's say that to recognise Palestine is: 'A reward for Hamas' but to not recognise Palestine is a reward for 75 years of Israeli military occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine , so take your pick.
After over 2 years of Israeli genocide , the UK is shamefully only now making a policy shift to recognise Palestine as a state after France's recent decision to recognise it and join the other 147 out of the 193 United Nations member states which already do.
Obviously the Israeli side are not in favour of it as they want to wipe out all the Palestinians and claim the land for themselves so when they said in response that this will: 'harms efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza' you have to wonder exactly how much of an effort they were making. The last ceasefire was broken by them when they sis what they always do to stuff up peace talks by shifting the goalposts so dramatically and the use that as a reason to started killing civilians again.
At least over 60,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israel, 1,000 of them when they arrived to collect food and water at aid stations, acts that have bought condemnation and accusations of Genocide from Israeli human rights groups and the International Court of Justice  and several United Nations Special Rapporteur's, the latest from  Francesca Albanese who listed those who were assisting and enabling Israel in their genocide.
Former Israel Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has called the plans for a 'humanitarian city' plans for a concentration camp a so what is called for is crippling sanctions against Israel as we saw against South Africa in the 80s and Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of murderers in Government to be tried for crimes against humanity along with all nations which helped Israel facilitate the slaughter, ethnic cleansing and mass starvation of an entire people.