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In the wake of the Parisian Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket Jihadist massacres/shootouts and the demonstration rallies in France yesterday, both ‘serious’ journalism and social media are awash with a wide range of conflicting opinions as to what happened and why, and how the [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Freedom and balls

Even as I type this at 10.45am on Friday 9th January, the apparent final end to the pursuit of the Jihadists who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre is playing out in the north-east suburbs of Paris in France. These are very difficult times for amateur bloggers such as myself the world over. [...]

January 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

… and there’s plenty more to come

I guess we all conspire to contribute to the things we like to protest about. With the General Election just over four months away, the politicians have been hitting the airwaves. The broadcasters have been only too willingly to give them airtime because this is the one medium-term story that is [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cranking slowly into action

This festive period I took some time off from my duties with National Rust … [Actually no, let me begin that again. The unvarnished truth is that I have no duties on the Rust, whose creed is about as loose – and therefore as liberating – as you could possibly find in the world of journalism [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Waiting for something to happen

I have owned my current car for nearly three years – it is a large SUV bought on a friend’s recommendation as a means of dealing with my chronic bad back that might have been caused or exacerbated by getting in and out of my previous low-slung A3 hatchback. I cannot be sure – and will never [...]

January 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ah well …

I’m fairly confident that I notched another milestone on the route to senility yesterday. Having travelled some way in the morning in advance of our Christmas meal with relatives, we handed over our presents and then together set off en masse across London to spend an hour raising a pre-lunch [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

A festive outing

I have two brothers and one of them lives in Wandsworth. Yesterday I travelled to a pub not far from there for my debut at an annual Christmas lunch he organises for his mates on a relaxed ‘anyone who can be bothered to turn up’ basis. He sends out an invitation to all and then decides where to [...]

December 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

From the bunker …

Although many normal human beings seem to be signed-up to an ‘any excuse for a party’ attitude, generally-speaking – since I’m not a great one for organised jolliness – the whole Christmas/New Year festive thing tends to pass me by. It’s nothing to do with me being un-religious. [...]

December 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

We’re all special cases now

According to a Radio Five Live contributor, the obesity epidemic in Britain already costs the NHS a staggering £5 billion per annum. This fact came winging into my brain in the wee hours this morning, just after I had spent yesterday reading reports of a new European Court of Justice ruling that [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Laughter is such a personal thing

Stereotypical Northern Irishman Frank Carson who, like not a few comedians, made a career out of telling simplistic jokes, used to have a catch-phrase “It’s the way I tells ‘em” which, perhaps one of the ultimate truths about his chosen profession, may explain why we find some performers [...]

December 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

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