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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

Between a Rock and a hard place

Between 1992 and 1994 I had a brief love affair with Apple products. I can pin-point the start of it because it was the year that the outcome of the infamous ITV franchise process instigated by the swivel-eyed Maggie Thatcher took effect, in the sense that those companies who had lost theirs had to [...]

March 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A moment in time

Yesterday morning I set off for two hours’ research in my local municipal library on my latest project. As I arrived I came upon a scene that could have been potentially disruptive to my cherished plan – on one side of the room one of the regular female members of staff was conducting a ‘show [...]

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just another ‘Day In The Life’ …

Much of my yesterday was spent watching, listening and reading in the media of the tributes and analysis of the career and influence of music producer Sir George Martin who had just died aged 90. What struck me in reviewing the media outpourings and my own recollections and judgement, was the [...]

March 10, 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

You know the ‘mushroom’ theory, right?

Sounding like a stuck record is a tough state to be in, both for me as an individual and (I’m assuming) to those that I keep inflicting upon like my regular readers. I therefore apologise, even if I have to acknowledge my special place in the firmament of human existence as the leading 21st [...]

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

It doesn’t get any easier

Amidst all the hoo-hah about the EU Referendum it is sometimes difficult to get a handle on ‘normal politics’ or indeed the wider picture. Never mind the travails of the Labour party in opposition with its new leader, one of the biggest side-shows in town is trying to establish what exactly is [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

A simple request

Dear Mr Cameron, (… or should I more properly be directing myself to Sir Jeremy Heywood … Donald Trump … Philip Hammond … the director of the ‘Remain’ campaign … Bill Gates …  Teresa May … Mark Zuckerberg … Jeremy Corbyn … Nick Clegg … Mr and Mrs Kinnock … Louis van Gaal [...]

March 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

You’re lucky I’m here at all

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. With a very welcome small amount of free time on my hands this week I had planned nothing more than to camp myself in my council library’s ‘Local Studies’ section and research stuff (we anoraks do). I did two days of that on Monday and [...]

March 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Oh joy!

This EU Referendum business is already far more fascinating than a General Election. Mounting a General Election campaign is a messy business, of course, because different political parties have widely differing views of the course of history and, naturally, whatever might be happening now or in [...]

February 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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