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‘As any fule no’ [the classic Molesworth quote – from the legendary spoof books first written in 1953 by Geoffrey Willans, illustrated by Ronald Searle] 23rd April this year was widely marked as the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. While some may seek to argue as to whether [...]

October 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The bookies always win

Having gone to bed exceptionally early last night – embarrassment prevents me revealing exactly when – I was inevitably up again at a near-record time. It was either in the twenty to thirty minutes in bed before falling into slumber, or in the similar period as I gradually ‘came [...]

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The world’s gone mad (again)

It is not often that I am up at the time on a Thursday (10.35pm or thereabouts) for the BBC1 Question Time programme chaired by David Dimbleby, as I was last night. The first two topics discussed were those of the US Presidential debate and, of course with Mrs May at her first EU summit, Brexit. [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

And suddenly – we voted Brexit, folks (apparently)!

Overnight I visited the website of The Independent and suddenly felt that I’d fallen into a parallel universe in which Brexit had suddenly become the only topic of the moment. Flicking to the equivalents of the other what-used-to-be-called UK broadsheet ‘serious’ newspapers and normality [...]

October 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaction blues

Rape is a ghastly, sickening crime and one that many surveys and studies testify may be wildly under-reported not just in the UK but around the world. However, the recent acquittal of (now) Chesterfield professional footballer Ched Evans in his re-trial continues to produce a great deal of [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Card troubles

It’s a rare occasion when one makes the BBC 6 O’ Clock television news, as I did last night. Or think I may have done. Here’s a link to the report concerned – as covered on the website of the – DAILY MAIL Yesterday late morning, as is my fate on a Friday, I was sent out to purchase the [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brexit confusion

Yesterday I watched the Six O’Clock News on BBC1 on which the opening story was the developing row at Prime Minister’s Question Time and elsewhere over whether Parliament should be allowed to scrutinise the Government’s strategy and/or ‘opening position’ on its Brexit negotiations  or [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s it – I’m off!

Further proof that I am being hounded by Big Brother government authorities emerged over the weekend when out of the blue I received a personal notice of yet another alleged speeding incident caught by CCTV camera in west London. On the day in question I was pootling along on my way to a wedding in [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stalemate in the wee hours

My past 24 hours was somewhat dominated by the second US presidential election (Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton) TV debate which took place from 2.00am this morning. After having a relatively quiet Sunday – reading the papers, watching the Andrew Marr Show and then then Sunday Politics, snoozing [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

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