From Iain S. Robson, our Englishman Abroad (Scottish Section)

January 16, 2019 by ottleyandrobson .

With all things considered after yesterday’s historic vote and resounding defeat for Her Majesty’s Government, (after over 2 years of interminable hand-wringing, shape-shifting and manoeuvering), I have come to the conclusion that the time is right for a return to Absolute Monarchy.

Parliamentary Democracy has been a truly interesting experience and I wouldn’t have missed it for the World but really, I think it now makes sense to move on in a single, purposeful and more efficient manner…

Are there any surviving Plantagenets out there? (I vaguely recall that they were always more exotic than the Tudors in homework).

Iain will always be European and an arch-Remainer but also knows when the Game is Up...

From our own Royal Court Correspondent, Ivor Ottley.

January 15, 2019 by ottleyandrobson .

I can reveal, exclusively, from an overheard conversation, (at a hearty breakfast of Arbroath Smokies, brown bread and a pot of malty Assam), that the Royal Household view of today's particular Brexitshambles is that ...'if Voting was going to change anything, it can always be made Illegal'...
Maybe this is the
4th way that will release us all from this abject misery.

Brexit looms

January 06, 2019 by ottleyandrobson .

From our Parliamentary correspondent, Iain Robson

The transition period - how long is a piece of string?

The reality dawns at the Channel Tunnel, despite the Headmistress’ very best efforts.

And at Manston, everyone showed up for the ‘No Deal Pressure Test’…

A New Year Dawns on 01-01-19…

January 01, 2019 by ottleyandrobson .

Iain Robson Reporting from Space…

There is great excitement as dawn breaks and Britain finds itself
unexpectedly full of optimism and enfolded by a tangible sense of
wonder.

No-one would have thought that at a stroke, we have been extracted
from the Earth-anchored drudgery of 2018 and all it's petty squabbles
over Brexit.

Some have dared to suggest that this is all stage-managed but others
have said that is far too cynical an outlook.

After all, Brian May of the beat combo formerly known as 'Queen', has
composed a piece of music for the event, with neither a shred of
overblown self-importance nor over-production.

In essence, the clever scientists at N.A.S.A. are currently waiting
for data to arrive from the deep recesses of Space, transmitted at the
speed of light from the extraordinarily plucky 'New Horizons'
space-craft.

The most distant object discovered thus far, this celestial body is
some 4 Billion miles from our little Green-Blue Planet.

By coincidence, we have met it some 50 years after we first walked on
the Moon in July 1969.

It is icy cold, dark and somewhat foreboding but it may illuminate our
understanding of who we are, where we have come from and where we are
going.

Known to most as 'Ultima Thule', our Special Scientific Correspondent,
Iain S Robson, can report exclusively, that those in the know believe
that it is actually the Irish Backstop.

Space calling Earth

Line of Kings

December 26, 2018 by ottleyandrobson .

Iain Robson reporting from the front end…