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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

August: an apocalyptic month

There is a tendency to regard August as the least active of all months, the ” silly season” ,  but history shows otherwise. The dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan, the Kuwait war and the death of Princess Diana all took place in August and war was declared both in the Great War [...]

August 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Shoreham Air Disaster

When the editor, Miles Piper of the National Rust called me my initial reaction was he wanted a piece on the Championships in China. I was ready to excoriate Justin Gatlin  a convicted drug cheat who has been twice suspended and declare my delight that Usain Bolt beat him. In fact the editor [...]

August 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Media frustrations

I know people who will not read The Times, The Sun or The Sunday Times – or indeed any other publication they believe is owned or influenced by the tentacles of the business empire of Rupert Murdoch – simply because they are owned by Mr Murdoch. Separately, most days I buy The Times, The Daily [...]

July 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

This one could run and run

With Greece having defaulted upon its debt by failing to pay the IMF by the deadline, we are now going to see a period of intense negotiations and daily speculations as Europe and sundry institutions try to find a way out of the crisis. Against this background the Greeks are about to hold their [...]

July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Beware Greeks (or anyone) bearing gifts

The United Kingdom’s relationship with the EU has been a running sore for far longer than I can remember – I’m a bit hazy about anything further back than 2004, so let’s say about forty years. Most of our electorate have an in-built suspicion about anything that involves unelected [...]

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Having your cake and eating it

I’m conscious that I might well be barking up the wrong tree in commenting upon this issue but overnight I spent a period up to 0100 hours this morning listening to Radio Five Live. One of the topics of the moment was the ‘gay cakes’ discrimination case in Northern Ireland, in which (as I [...]

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubling issues

The news yesterday that the Crown Prosecution Service has decided that it would not be in the public interest for Lord Janner to face prosecution for alleged sexual offences committed more than two decades ago because of his state of his health raises many difficult topics. The decision has been [...]

April 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping ahead of the game

I believe it was Churchill who once said “If you’re not a liberal when you’re twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain”, but one of the genuinely worrying aspects of growing older is the constant need to avoid disconnecting from the modern world [...]

April 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Counting down …

I promise I’m doing my level best to get excited about the General Election campaign – which, the pundits were saying yesterday, has just 38 days to go – but already it feels like I’m swimming upstream in a fast-moving swollen river. Here are some personal snapshot reactions to [...]

March 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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