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Can we fast-forward exactly twelve months please?

Well, thank God that’s over – and I don’t even believe in Him! You can call me Scrooge, or worse, if you like but I always find the second half of December going into the New Year as an ordeal and this one’s been no different to any other. It’s one of the most challenging periods of the [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The honeymoon is over – so where’s the beef?

One British political myth – or is it truth – combining both received opinion and straight history is that, whereas the Labour Party is at continual war with itself over ideological issues and in particular engages in prolonged leadership battles, the Tory Party is eternally better off because [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

One that just keeps going

These days I am no longer a habitual listener to radio but that doesn’t prevent me having fond nostalgic memories of The Goons, Radio Luxembourg, Two Way Family Favourites, Radio One’s (Alan Freeman) pop chart show, Round The Horne and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again from my [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Witnessing a great sporting moment

I’ve got to own up here – I’m not really into sport. I played a bit at school, largely because it was compulsory, and have variously tried squash, golf and garden cricket in my time but participation is not really my game. I began following football by becoming a notional ‘fair weather’ [...]

December 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christmas fun

Yesterday we popped across London to join a Christmas Day gathering that became one of the most enjoyable of its kind I can recall in recent times. As a group we have a had a number of family health issues in the past twelve months – and also a wedding – and yet the schedule unfolded in as [...]

December 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used ter be

This is my sixty-fifth Christmas and one thing I’ve noticed recently is that either my computer keyboard needs a new battery – that was my first assumption some eight months when I first noticed the phenomenon, since when I’ve changed the batteries twice – or my ability at two-fingered [...]

December 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The application of common sense

About this terrorist attack on the market in the centre of Berlin, its aftermath and the bloody end of the Tunisian Anis Amri, widely suspected to have being the main perpetrator, in Milan after a European-wide manhunt – pardon me, but am I missing something? Let me begin by mentioning a couple [...]

December 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all going crazy!

Twice every year there tends to be a disconnect between the world as it normally is and a degree of weirdness, i.e. during the August (end of summer) ‘silly season’, when not much is happening, and then the second half of December, when it’s almost a case of too much going on. It won’t have [...]

December 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical matters again

Sometimes I frighten myself with how blasé I am regarding medical matters and my own body. I used to be terminally squeamish with anything too gruesome or detailed about other people’s illnesses, diseases or injuries. For a long while I was prone to feeling a mounting queasiness whenever people [...]

December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Floundering in aspic?

Is it just me, or is the new Tory government regime under Mrs May distinctly under-impressive it its performance? Whether it’s a matter of fact, or just an impression I’ve gained, but it doesn’t seem to be scoring many runs at the moment. The common view within the Westminster ‘bubble’ is [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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