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Back where it all began

Last night, after my first visit to the gym for about a month, I settled down to make my evening ‘TV dinner’ meal and watch my recording of Up On Cyprus Avenue [originally transmitted on BBC Four on the evening of Sunday 6th September], which had been billed as the highlights of two concerts [...]

September 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

We’re all being watched, get over it!

On my daily perusal of the UK national newspaper websites this morning I came across the following item about a new Tory government initiative – see here – in THE INDEPENDENT It seems to me that there are points to make on both sides of the issue, as follows: Firstly, that the Government [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s raining cats and dogs

Ignoring those unfortunates who despise all animals, when it comes to domestic pets – and for these purposes I’m ignoring incarcerated beings such as snakes, lizards, tortoises, turtles, terrapins, rats, mice, stoats, ermine, hamsters, guinea pigs, goats, guinea fowl, parrots, cockatoos, [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

And so the gloves come off

We are now entering purdah time for the coaches of Rugby World Cup teams – the period with twelve days to go to the opening match [England v Fiji at Twickenham Stadium – Friday 18th September, kick-off 8.00pm] when the squad selections are done, the ‘warm up’ matches are over and all that [...]

September 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another brave new world

For the past week Sky News has been running a series of reports on the rapid and ongoing development of ‘smart’ robots, thereby prompting a discussion upon the potential threat to jobs represented by the possibility that one day there’ll barely be a reason for human beings to work at all [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sticking to a hard line

Just occasionally one comes across a piece in the media that makes you think, irrespective of where you stand politically and/or in terms of religious belief (or lack of it). Throughout recent history there have been continuous internal interpretation discussions/arguments going on between [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

This far is far enough

Several things about the modern world bug me and one of them is the political-correctness industry. If that makes me a fuddy-duddy then I’m happy to plead guilty. I like to think that I’m all for social development and I accept that often ‘ahead of their time’ campaigners have to challenge [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

World’s apart

The process of ‘growing up’ (or is it ‘growing old’?) is a strange one, but I was thinking about it yesterday and it seems to me that reaching overall impressions and conclusions about the world just doesn’t get any easier. This self-revelation is somewhat disappointing because – [...]

September 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s going on, what’s going on …

Last night, channel-hopping after a day of grind sitting at my computer whilst waiting for my pre-prepared Waitrose meal to cook, I came across what I think was described as a Labour Party leadership ‘hustings’ session chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy during the Channel Four News programme [...]

September 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Don’t shoot the messenger

Sassy rock singer Chrissie Hynde – she of Pretenders and sometime marriages to the Kinks’ Ray Davies and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds fame [and by the way I don’t care a fig that the sisterhood might seek to take me to task for defining her by her marriages to well-known men – I’m solely [...]

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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