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The opening salvos

Yesterday the nation opened its newspapers to be confronted with near-blanket front-page coverage of Boris Johnson’s declaration in favour of the ‘Brexit’ campaign. Usually I buy into the media’s ‘public interest’ (at least the ‘giving-the-public-what-it-wants’ version of that term) [...]

February 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

It had to happen …

And so now Boris has declared his hand. Yippee! At last we’ve got a decent dollop of mayhem, charisma and ‘God knows what?’ added to this EU Referendum business which, for all the excitement it has generated within the Westminster and Fleet Street ‘bubbles’, had been in serious danger of [...]

February 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re off! The Referendum race begins …

And so we now know that the UK’s Referendum on whether or not to remain in the EU will take place on Thursday 23rd June. There’s little doubt – based upon the last six to eight months of the Prime Minister’s apparent tactics on the issue and the various splits within the Tory cabinet that [...]

February 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strewth! I’ve finally worked it out …

Having returned from being out all morning, I have now settled in to have a sandwich for lunch and catch-up with what’s going on via watching Sky News … simply because, for reasons best known to itself, my favourite current affairs/political show of all (BBC2’s Daily Politics) has decided to [...]

February 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Re-arranging the deck-chairs

Overnight – simply because I had gone to bed so early that I woke up again about 11.30pm – I had my first opportunity in a while to listen to Radio Five Live’s Question Time Extra Time hosted by Stephen Nolan and political correspondent Chris Mason. As the title implies, this is an off-shoot [...]

February 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this (again)

When big issues are involved, whether you’re talking national/political things like an ‘In/Out’ EU Referendum or a NHS junior doctor’s dispute, it’s jolly hard for we non-participants on the side-lines to understand properly the protagonists’ respective arguments, still less the [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Turning up the volume

There’s a famous scene in the 1984 spoof documentary movie This Is Spinal Tap in which a member of the band proudly shows a reporter one of their amplifiers on which the volume control (normally numbered 1 to 10) goes up to 11 – at my age I’m a bit hazy on details, but something tells me the [...]

February 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

One small step for man …

Last week I made a technological breakthrough of sorts. I bought a slow cooker. I’m a big fan of stews of any description or form and I had long suspected that a slow cooker – by which, I’d been led to believe, the deal is that you just bung the ingredients into the receptacle designed for [...]

February 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A trip to the West End

Yesterday I travelled by train and then the Tube into central London to attend a reunion, a thing I rarely do these days – travelling to that part of the metropolis I mean, not so much the reunion. The occasion was a quarterly lunch that we’ve informally arranged – one of those inherently [...]

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

The battle-lines are being drawn

Being cynical about politics, a default position for many of my acquaintance, can become a full-time occupation these days if you let it. As a fascinated observer (the BBC2’s Daily Politics and Sunday Politics being the equivalent of old friends if I ever find myself near a television when the [...]

February 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

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