Chocks away, chaps … !
On this rather important day for the Government, the Labour Party and indeed the nation here’s a link to a withering piece from Defence specialist Patrick Cockburn that appears today on the website of – THE [...]
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Enough to drive you nuts
If you asked me to sit down and produce a list of the things that can potentially annoy me about the modern world, or that have annoyed me all my life (I don’t wish to blame everything on the 21st Century), then contractors, workmen or even private postal delivery men would be right at the top [...]
To bomb or not to bomb
I don’t know about you, but the funny thing is the more I consider the Government’s desire to join the supposed ‘coalition of the willing’ to bomb ISIS into oblivion in Syria the more I think it’s a fifty-fifty call at best. The core of my continued dithering is my concern over the [...]
It’s a hard one, innit?
Yesterday I was out-and-about and only caught snatches of David Cameron’s statement on the subject of extending the UK’s current bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq to Syria, either ‘live’ or subsequently on news/current affairs programmes. I’m neither a hawk nor a peacenik by inclination but [...]
Give me strength!
I’m currently sitting at my computer just after 2330 hours on Sunday 22nd of November 2015, positively steaming at what I’ve just been listening to on the Stephen Nolan Show on Radio Five Live. Having gone to bed even earlier than normal (1940 hours), I awoke not long ago and decided that of [...]
An interesting time, maybe
The world of politics has entered a confused and yet fascinating stage. Even if you take the view that Labour has entered a ‘lunatics have taken over the asylum’ phase, the Tories are hardly faring much better. With David Cameron – their version of Tony Blair – having publicly [...]
Meeting up with an old friend
Yesterday I had occasion, as a bit-part player, to join a gathering of the military great and good in central London for lunch – for security and other reasons I fear I cannot give many more details than that. At my advanced age I don’t get out much these days so I guess that readers should [...]
Troubling times all round
When it comes to discussing important matters such as global politics, religion, one man’s terrorist being another’s freedom fighter, good versus evil, the meaning of life, common human values, the defence of civil liberties versus government’s key responsibility to protect the public, ‘I [...]
Proving I’ve still got it …
There I was, minding my own business watching television last night, when at about 8.30pm a ‘ping’ indicated that a text had arrived on my mobile phone. So far so good. A short while later I wandered over to the sideboard to see whether at last Sophia Loren had seen sense, found herself staying [...]
Reaction to Paris
I’m not in the business of discussing the various short and long-term implications of the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday (13th November) because they’re evolving as new developments in the investigation as to what happened and why occur every day – maybe I should say ‘every few [...]