Roger Whitmore
@bathosprey.bsky.social
Policy analyst background. Family orientated, dog loving and curious. After all this time, still has lots to learn and understand.
Farage got a well earned roasting in Congress this week. Why isn’t the BBC and the rest of the UK media doing the same?
September 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Farage got a well earned roasting in Congress this week. Why isn’t the BBC and the rest of the UK media doing the same?
Not cheap for Devon people just for the metropolitans pricing locals out of the housing market.
May 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Not cheap for Devon people just for the metropolitans pricing locals out of the housing market.
Is football and curries the best examples you can provide of the City’s culture ?
May 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Is football and curries the best examples you can provide of the City’s culture ?
My father was conscripted in 1939 and left the RE in 1945. He was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it. No joy!
May 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My father was conscripted in 1939 and left the RE in 1945. He was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it. No joy!
My father was conscripted in 1939 and during his 6 years of the war, he was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it.
May 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My father was conscripted in 1939 and during his 6 years of the war, he was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it.
…. and what’s his obsession with eggs all about?
April 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
…. and what’s his obsession with eggs all about?
Yes! I was going to end my subscription this year anyway. There is, for example, only so much of John Gray’s articles I could take hammering the West, Progressives and Starmer. I still remember his article, praising Badenoch, with much hilarity and disbelief. Will it now be called The Reformist?
March 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yes! I was going to end my subscription this year anyway. There is, for example, only so much of John Gray’s articles I could take hammering the West, Progressives and Starmer. I still remember his article, praising Badenoch, with much hilarity and disbelief. Will it now be called The Reformist?
It is important to recognise that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the disastrous NHS reorganisation of Andrew Lansley and meekly accepted by the coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It is important to recognise that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the disastrous NHS reorganisation of Andrew Lansley and meekly accepted by the coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
I might have missed it but I haven’t read anywhere that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the Lansley NHS reorganisation, a reorganisation that meekly got the go ahead by the Coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I might have missed it but I haven’t read anywhere that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the Lansley NHS reorganisation, a reorganisation that meekly got the go ahead by the Coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
‘Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
‘Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
I am still wondering what Zuckerberg spotted in the photo and why it terrified him.
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I am still wondering what Zuckerberg spotted in the photo and why it terrified him.
Can someone explain how the 48% figure was calculated by Mr Goodwin? I presume he did not pluck the figure out of the air so he must have used some corroborating evidence, however spurious it was.
March 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Can someone explain how the 48% figure was calculated by Mr Goodwin? I presume he did not pluck the figure out of the air so he must have used some corroborating evidence, however spurious it was.
Great post from Stephen Bush. Reading this piece was the perfect antidote to the response of the increasingly anti-Labour New Statesman. Reading the article in SB’s former home by Freddie Hayward, you would think that Starmer’s visit to Trump was a complete waste of time.
February 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Great post from Stephen Bush. Reading this piece was the perfect antidote to the response of the increasingly anti-Labour New Statesman. Reading the article in SB’s former home by Freddie Hayward, you would think that Starmer’s visit to Trump was a complete waste of time.
Interesting how you segue from English to British. It is irritating for the Welsh, including me, and the Scots.
February 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Interesting how you segue from English to British. It is irritating for the Welsh, including me, and the Scots.
For your enlightenment, John Bew has written a very good book on Realpolitik. At least if you read it you might better understand what the concept means. Btw I’m a Labour Party Member
February 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
For your enlightenment, John Bew has written a very good book on Realpolitik. At least if you read it you might better understand what the concept means. Btw I’m a Labour Party Member
Member of the Labour Party actually! You need to get your head out of the fantasies of Warhammer and rejoin the real world.
February 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Member of the Labour Party actually! You need to get your head out of the fantasies of Warhammer and rejoin the real world.
And you are someone who does not understand realpolitik, the art of the possible and …. nuance! Proposing utopian recommendations is a vanity for those who will never have to implement them.
February 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And you are someone who does not understand realpolitik, the art of the possible and …. nuance! Proposing utopian recommendations is a vanity for those who will never have to implement them.
Do you mean you or your parents never intended to use?
February 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Do you mean you or your parents never intended to use?
She’s a hopeless, she’s getting more hopeless with time, the Tories know she’s hopeless, what are they going to do?? (to be continued)
February 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
She’s a hopeless, she’s getting more hopeless with time, the Tories know she’s hopeless, what are they going to do?? (to be continued)
As outreach agents for Putin, they don’t see the need for any defence.
February 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As outreach agents for Putin, they don’t see the need for any defence.