Introducing the Tangled Web team of writers...being de-constructed.....
Alison
"I started blogging after googling something about a news item and discovering the array of political blogs out there. I love talking politics and writing and so a few minutes later, pretty much on a whim, I created a site of my own.
It started out mostly as me venting spleen over political issues. it included commentary on aspects of working and living in London, photographing it, anecdotal stuff.
I'm bilingual, my bachelors degree was in languages and European politics. I’ve been watching us flopping around over the EU for ages now. I guess Im not so anti.
What is a hobby has evolved with greater resolve on political issues.
I’m very happy to be able to contribute to a newly restyled ATW. Mostly I want to push issues out there that need discussing & convey a sense of pride about the nation and the city I love - what it is to be young and British in 2006.
I am open to persuasion but I guess my perspective is generally right wing in an age of political confusion."
Mike Cunningham
I'm a retired engineer, proud father of three adult children, all of whom are Engineers of varying disciplines.
Just celebrated thirty-ninth wedding anniversary with my beloved Jacqueline!
Seven years in British Merchant Navy, shortly after swallowing anchor moved for eighteen years to South Africa, and then returned to England.
Likes writing, despite lots of rejection letters for novels, blogging, classical music, most recognisable works of art but very little so-called 'modern' art, which he reckons is the ultimate 'con trick'!
Gets very 'uptight' when confronted with petty bureaucracy and 'jobsworths'.
Dislikes all 'politically-correct' statements and attitudes!
Clings robustly to the belief that Newcastle-on-Tyne is the centre of the known universe!
John Smith
I was brought up to be ashamed of my heritage (Anglo-Germanic), race (same), and faith (born Anglican) and after all these years the joke has worn thin. I refuse to even consider feeling ashamed of it now, nor to make excuses for other peoples' misfortunes.
I've learnt a lot about the religion of pieces in the last few years, and it's had an effect on me. On Sept 11th 2001 I was angry. Now, after everything since, I'm furious. The more I look into and research these 'people', this 'culture' and 'religion', the less sympathy I have with it, the less I can believe their propaganda.
The West, it appears, has been sold out from under our feet. Not just one country or another, the West as a whole, and all that we hold dear. In times past, a demographic and criminal movement on the level we are seeing today would have been recognised as an invasion and dealt with accordingly. Today we are expected to slay St George in our rush to offer our daughters to the Dragon. No, I refuse.
David Vance
Politically middle of the road, keen on a liberal lifestyle and casually relaxed about militant Islam - these are all terms that don't really apply to me!
I reside in Northern Ireland - the centre for world peace. Sorry, I mean appeasement! I spent some years in front-line politics here before deciding it was much more fun to retire to the sidelines and snipe at the clownlike antics of our political elite!
I write extensively on a variety of political topics and have been published in a range of journals.
I appear regularly on local TV and Radio political programmes.
Currently laboriously writing my way - unfunded - on a book on the way in which Northern Ireland has been turned into a monstrous political laboratory for the perversion of democracy, and all in the name of "peace".
I am available, for a modest fee, to provide right-of-liberal political analysis for the discerning editor.