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Waiting for God-knows

What is it with utility contractors and call-outs? One of the most frustrating aspects of modern life is having something go wrong in your home which necessitates the call out of an engineer. Take a hypothetical example which actually happened to me this week. Suddenly one day, about a month ago, [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Complicated European issues

Yesterday I watched a Channel Four interview with an Italian member of an UN (or equivalent) human rights organisation complaining that EU countries were not doing enough to take refugees risking their lives fleeing from Syria/Libya or wherever to get to Europe and a new life. He didn’t mention [...]

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Entrails of the General Election

To be recommended to Rust readers today, a long-form article by Patrick Wintour entitled The Undoing of Ed Miliband – and how Labour lost the Election which appears on the website of – THE [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of cutting back

Running a national economy is no simple matter – I couldn’t do it. The 2010-2015 Coalition and new Tory governments have made great mileage out of ‘getting our finances in order’ (specifically trying to balance the books by a combination of reducing spending and encouraging economic growth) [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Churchill: the day Britain said no

Last night I watched a documentary on the General Election of 1945 which Labour won by a landslide. Over the years I have studied this election in some detail. The normal assembly of anti-Churchill academics, Professors Charmley and Overy gathered as well as a bleached blonde Geordie Trot activist [...]

May 26, 2015 // 2 Comments

Having your cake and eating it

I’m conscious that I might well be barking up the wrong tree in commenting upon this issue but overnight I spent a period up to 0100 hours this morning listening to Radio Five Live. One of the topics of the moment was the ‘gay cakes’ discrimination case in Northern Ireland, in which (as I [...]

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stating the obvious

Pardon me for being thick, but – ever since Prime Minister David Cameron hatched his strategic plan of renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU and then putting the result to the electorate in a referendum – I’ve considered the wheeze ridiculous, borderline crackers. Never mind Mr [...]

May 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Working out what happened

Life constantly goes forward and thus the General Election result announced on 8th May is fast receding into the past. For the average punter/voter, trying to follow the antics of the ‘losing’ parties is a complicated task involving (as it inevitably does) a delicate tippy-toeing between the [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Right up themselves

Actors and performers generally are a bit like normal people only not quite. Back in the day – and maybe this remains true today for all I know – it used to be said that, at any given moment, 90% of actors were out of work. Equity (the actors’ union) is in a not-dissimilar position to the [...]

May 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Election betting meltdown

It was not just Labour in Scotland nor the Lib-Dems that suffered a meltdown, the betting analysts got it spectacularly wrong too. I revisited my Racing Post Election Special. It’s easier to refer to what Matthew Engel called correctly – Labour to hold Edinburgh South, Conservative [...]

May 9, 2015 // 1 Comment

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