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Unintended consequences

My humble nature prevents me crowing about it, but the latest development in what is now called the Panama Papers crisis, coming hard upon the heels of my post on the topic yesterday, does not surprise me in the least – see here – CAMERON OWNS UP I feel justified in assuring those concerned [...]

April 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A salute of sorts to a newspaper of sorts

The abandonment of its print edition by The Independent newspaper – to a wholly digital future – is imminent. When it was first published in 1986 under Andreas Whittam Smith I was still idealistic and young enough to welcome it with open arms, pleased to encourage a brand new [...]

March 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pointing out the obvious

Sometimes you have to be tough or controversial. What happened yesterday in Belgium was a terrible terrorist outrage and it ill bodes anyone to make political points out of such a catastrophe. Still – and I must declare here I’m a Brexit supporter only for the cack-handed reason that [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Counting the chickens

The course of current events and developing issues are doing little to dispel the ‘chaos’ theory of politics, whether at home or in the United States. I’m no expert on American history or politics but the Trump phenomenon simply goes to reinforce the general impression on this side of the [...]

March 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

(All together now): How do you solve a problem like Maria?

This organ’s stance of the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sports is a matter of long-standing record and after Abbie Boraston-Green’s piece yesterday on Maria Sharapova’s failed drugs test at the Australian Open we do not propose to follow the story’s developments on a blow-by-blow [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

The opening salvos

Yesterday the nation opened its newspapers to be confronted with near-blanket front-page coverage of Boris Johnson’s declaration in favour of the ‘Brexit’ campaign. Usually I buy into the media’s ‘public interest’ (at least the ‘giving-the-public-what-it-wants’ version of that term) [...]

February 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re off! The Referendum race begins …

And so we now know that the UK’s Referendum on whether or not to remain in the EU will take place on Thursday 23rd June. There’s little doubt – based upon the last six to eight months of the Prime Minister’s apparent tactics on the issue and the various splits within the Tory cabinet that [...]

February 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this (again)

When big issues are involved, whether you’re talking national/political things like an ‘In/Out’ EU Referendum or a NHS junior doctor’s dispute, it’s jolly hard for we non-participants on the side-lines to understand properly the protagonists’ respective arguments, still less the [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Little doubt it’s going to get worse before it gets better …

This morning the first of what may end up becoming several junior doctors’ strikes over the issue of what has been called ‘the 7-day NHS’ will end. Industrial disputes generally tend to pass me by and this one certainly has. I’m not entirely sure why. It could be because I’m too thick and [...]

January 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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