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Moses leaves the EU

I wished my brother a Happy Passover and he informed me of a topical subject he had covered in an article for his synagogue magazine. In my opinion it merits the wider platform of the National Rust … Moses plans exit from the Egyptian Union( EU) In a rare interview with your special [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

All’s well that ends well

Friday 22nd April 2016: European Challenge Cup semi-final: Harlequins v Grenoble at the Stoop; result – Harlequins 30 Grenoble 6. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone …” (or whatever it was that W.H. Auden wrote in his Funeral Blues poem that was recited by actor John Hannah at a [...]

April 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Being driven crazy

Six years ago I went on a holiday to Italy which involved flying in to Pisa, hiring a car to travel to our chosen villa and then – at the end of our stay – then driving to leave the car at, and fly home from, Rome airport. A couple of months later, out of the blue, I received a [...]

April 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of things to come

In an otherwise unremarkable day, yesterday I filled up my car with fuel and – in the course of doing errands and seeing people – I ended up in Bicester, twelve miles or so up the M40 beyond Oxford, visiting my daughter and her partner for a pizza meal and general catch-up. I’m not quite sure [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

At last!

Some great thinkers and commentators have the capacity to get to the core of humanity’s eternal truths. I guess it’s arguable as to whether, when Samuel Johnson pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel some 240 years ago, he fingered one of them. Nevertheless, you won’t [...]

April 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Recalling memories from the past

Down at the coast, spending some time with my father, yesterday I came across an example of a common experience with elderly people, i.e. that their memory of recent events can be sketchy but their recall of events long ago pretty pin-sharp. My mother, who spent the last years of her life in a [...]

April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go again

It’s that time of year again – or at least I think it is. Yesterday my eagle eye spotted a piece in The Sunday Times on the subject of whether or not Sir Elton John was Britain’s most generous philanthropist, based on ‘latest figures’, which suggested to me that we will shortly be hit [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

At least that’s over and nobody died

Aviva Premiership Round 20: Saracens v Harlequins at Wembley Stadium; result Saracens 22 (4 league points) Harlequins 12 (0 league points). Almost certain outcome: Saracens to secure a home draw in the Premiership play-offs; Quins now unable to reach them. One day I would like to make a visit to [...]

April 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Living in the present

Writing as someone whose degree of contact with the ways of the modern world is relatively limited and simultaneously – as technological progress continues at its breakneck speed – decreasing exponentially, I am watching from the welcome relative safety of the side lines as the generations [...]

April 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Heady stuff

Today I rather enjoyed two politically-related pieces to be found on the website of The Independent, not normally a ‘broadsheet’ that in my experience offers the best heavyweight insights on the subject. Firstly, on the topic of the UK’s EU referendum in June, yesterday Labour leader Jeremy [...]

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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