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Not much longer to go now …

Last night at 7.30pm I tuned to BBC1 to see another of Andrew Neil’s interviews with the protagonists in the EU Referendum campaign – this time with Remain’s George Osborne. Now inside the last fortnight before 23rd June Mr Neil has taken upon himself the unenviable task of challenge the [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Seven days from now, seventy two years ago

Yesterday I went for a pub lunch with my ancient father and George, a pal he’d known since prep school – I’m justified in using the adjective ‘ancient’ because both are nonagenarians. George, who is a D-Day veteran and had a ‘good’ WW2, told a fuller version of his hilarious tale of [...]

June 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Power and democracy

Observing developments in the forthcoming US Presidential Election on top of those in Britain since 2015 (the Coalition Government, the 2015 General Election and now the EU Referendum) there certainly seems to be something in the theory that there is a growing ‘disconnect’ between ordinary [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

On the downward slope to the finishing line

So with less than three weeks to go to the big vote on 23rd June I settled down yesterday to watch Sir John Major’s extraordinary appearance on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show. Lest we forget, Sir John was the British Tory prime minister from 1990 to 1997, now probably most well-known (or at least [...]

June 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Counting down …

Now with just 19 days to go to the EU Referendum, it seems that both the Remainers and Leavers campaign have finally settled into their respective comfort zones – the economy versus the ‘leap into the dark’ for the former, ‘Let’s get our country back from the twin evils of an unelected [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go, here we go …

And so we’re off! Last night the England football squad completed its warm-up campaign for Euro 2016 by beating Portugal 1-0 in a friendly match at Wembley and now flies out to its base in France before playing its first group game against Russia in Marseille a week tomorrow. I can vaguely [...]

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

A questionable state of mind

Yesterday I continued my new fitness/dietary regime by going to the gym for the second day running. Hard-earned experience has taught me to avoid all diet fads and theories – fibres, carbs, good and bad types of fat, protein must be eaten, protein mustn’t be eaten, fruit or vegetable shakes, [...]

June 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another staging post is reached

This week, some two years and seven months after suffering what appears to have been a self-inflicted catastrophic onset of osteoarthritis in my hip whilst playing golf, I went for a pre-op assessment in advance of my date with the knife for a hip replacement in July. By ‘self-inflicted’ I mean [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bidding a temporary farewell …

The dictionary definition of ‘purdah’ suggests that it is a practice of certain Muslim and Hindu societies whereby women are screened from men or strangers, especially by means of a curtain. As regards the UK political system, as I understand it, the word has come to be applied to an agreed (or [...]

May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some may not like it up ’em (at least at this time of the morning)

Yesterday my schedule had been built in advance around the latest Prime Minister’s Question Time shown live from the House of Commons on BBC2 as part of the Daily Politics programme hosted by Andrew Neil. What I hadn’t banked upon was the fact that David Cameron wasn’t going to be there – [...]

May 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

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