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You know the ‘mushroom’ theory, right?

Sounding like a stuck record is a tough state to be in, both for me as an individual and (I’m assuming) to those that I keep inflicting upon like my regular readers. I therefore apologise, even if I have to acknowledge my special place in the firmament of human existence as the leading 21st [...]

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

It doesn’t get any easier

Amidst all the hoo-hah about the EU Referendum it is sometimes difficult to get a handle on ‘normal politics’ or indeed the wider picture. Never mind the travails of the Labour party in opposition with its new leader, one of the biggest side-shows in town is trying to establish what exactly is [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stop the world, I want to get off!

Aviva Premiership Round 15: Saturday 5th March – A.J. Bell Stadium – Sale Sharks 29 Harlequins 23. There are times in this life where one really does have to be thankful for small mercies and yesterday afternoon may just have been one of them. With BT Sport, having annexed the Aviva Premiership [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s not as bad as you think

Roughly about twice every winter I reckon to catch a cold – or is it a dose of the ‘flu? I don’t suppose it matters which. When I was working, I very rarely took time of work for such occurrences. I don’t like being ill and I’d rather be ‘doing something’ than not, so carrying on [...]

March 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A simple request

Dear Mr Cameron, (… or should I more properly be directing myself to Sir Jeremy Heywood … Donald Trump … Philip Hammond … the director of the ‘Remain’ campaign … Bill Gates …  Teresa May … Mark Zuckerberg … Jeremy Corbyn … Nick Clegg … Mr and Mrs Kinnock … Louis van Gaal [...]

March 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

CST DINNER

Last night I attended the CST dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel. CST (Community Security Trust) ostensibly exists to protect the Jewish community notably by providing security for synagogues but its remit is much wider. There were in the last year seven thwarted Paris style attacks. That these [...]

March 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

You’re lucky I’m here at all

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. With a very welcome small amount of free time on my hands this week I had planned nothing more than to camp myself in my council library’s ‘Local Studies’ section and research stuff (we anoraks do). I did two days of that on Monday and [...]

March 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A flickering candle in the darkness

In the 21st Century – bombarded by media scare stories, examples of unequal treatment and strident opinion on ‘how things would be in a perfect world’ – we tend to take it as read that political correctness rules. It’s reached the point where traditionalists like myself (call us old [...]

March 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sometimes life imitates art

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist best known for his iconic work The Scream, which has become a staple of Western culture for the past 120 years for symbolising not only personal depression and horror, but – in a general sense – modern man’s angst at the direction in [...]

February 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Oh joy!

This EU Referendum business is already far more fascinating than a General Election. Mounting a General Election campaign is a messy business, of course, because different political parties have widely differing views of the course of history and, naturally, whatever might be happening now or in [...]

February 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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