(After a break for a few months, Meikle’s Blog is back. I hope to be posting on a regular basis over the next few months) Shameless, that’s what politicians are, absolutely bloody shameless! Imagine for 10 years you had let your son or daughter do absolutely anything they wanted to do with little or no […]

Much has been written, rightly, about the expenses scandal, but in reality this is merely sypmotomatic of the rise of a new political class entirely dependent on politics for a living. This wasn’t always the case as illustrated by this passage from A. N. Wilson’s magisterial study: After the Victorians As well as being a […]

The Wansee Conference held in March 1942 in the suburbs of Berlin at the height of Nazi Germany’s attempt at world conquest (the German Army occupied two-thirds of Europe from the Spanish border to the gates of Moscow, from the North Cape to the sands of the Sahara) is notorious for apparently given the seal […]