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Living anywhere but the present

It must be deeply frustrating to live in the 21sT Century if you’re a Tory. Stereotypically, of course, people of a Tory persuasion instinctively want to live in the past – I say that because (hiding under the skirt of ‘not all change is for the good’) they instinctively want life to remain [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Forgotten but not quite

Former Lib-Dem leader Jeremy Thorpe died yesterday aged 84 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. [Actually – hold that statement for a moment. I saw a comment by a lady in the media, somewhere within the past week, that she resented people’s experience of living with cancer being [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Farewell to a man

In the small hours of Wednesday morning I listened to a ‘live’ relay of the funeral service of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes taking place in the small town of Macksville in New South Wales as broadcast by on the Up All Night programme hosted by Rhod Sharp on Radio Five Live. Hughes, as [...]

December 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

An M1 travel day

In my new role as unofficial National Rust traffic reporter, yesterday I had occasion to set off at 5.50am on a quest to visit a publisher in a little village not far from the city of Leicester, an expedition that necessarily involved travelling up the M1 motorway, of which I had been much warned [...]

December 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A complex subject with no easy answers

I am prompted to write today by  a piece I spotted in the media on the difficult subject of rape – I use the word ‘difficult’ deliberately because, for me, there are fundamentally worthy but conflicting issues involved on both sides. All campaigners against rape tends to cite the facts [...]

December 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

An intriguing possibility?

Yesterday I drove to the south coast in order to spend the weekend with my father. Despite the waterlogged lawn and the evident puddles on many surrounding roads, the South-East has been experiencing some remarkably mild weather recently as December approaches. We spent the late morning sitting out [...]

November 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sliding down the table

I’m beginning to get fed up with my version of every true fan’s eternal quest to keep his pecker up and see the positive side of things when they just aren’t going in his team’s direction. There’s no two ways about it – Quins are playing rubbish this term and there’s no end to it in [...]

November 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

An awkward topic

Life is finite – there’s no getting around it. I think it was in a self-written film scene that Woody Allen once quipped “I don’t fear death – I just don’t want to be there when it happens”, but it’s certainly the case that the approaching end of a life (and the surrounding issues [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Investing in companies: the Tickler test

When it comes to investing in shares you get all manner of recommendations based on varying criteria. Some quote the price earnings ratio formula: the market value divided by the earnings per share. I do not want to get too technical here as I have probably lost the reader already, but the problem [...]

November 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Last day blues

Yesterday our main engagement was lunch with my 92-year old godfather and family at their home in a suburb of Perth. I hadn’t visited it in forty-four years but the extraordinary thing is – even though I barely remembered it – you could tell, just by being there, that it [...]

November 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

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