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Maybe a common sense implant might help

My sleep patterns, never regular, have been awry recently. As a result, yesterday I was up before midnight, returned to bed at about 4.00am, rose again at 8.15am and felt a tad dozy all day. The cornerstone of my schedule was to be viewing Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons, [...]

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The BBC catches a crab

A side-product of having a hobby interest is that, however weak your understanding of it in the vast scheme of such things, you do tend to be able to spot or hear a factual mistake when one occurs. Having been researching First World War soldiers on and off for over twenty years, I have acquired [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Do they think nobody notices?

These days, on my chosen subject, I’m beginning to sound like a stuck record, or – to be more accurate – write like one. Rather like the crashing bore – the only candidate to be school class captain who cannot understand why he’s not automatically the most popular bloke in [...]

April 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Losing by default

I don’t know what the viewing figures were, but I was one of those who tuned in to BBC2 at 7.00pm yesterday to the second of two ‘live’ television debates between Nick Clegg (the Lib-Dem leader) and Nigel Farage (his UKIP counterpart), this time chaired by the BBC’s venerable anchor David [...]

April 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Big ‘Can’t Pay’ Debt Debate

Last night, channel-hopping whilst waiting for something (anything) to watch on my television, I chanced upon a truly awful television programme called The Big ‘Can’t Pay’ Debt Debate [Channel Five, 6.30pm]. I came to it at about 6.50pm, so witnessed only the last one-third of it. Richard [...]

March 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

As has been heavily trailed upon both radio and television, today is Budget Day. At some point in the last twenty years I cannot identify, after many years of stopping work – clearing my afternoon – and religiously watching or listening to ‘live’ coverage of this occasional parliamentary [...]

March 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

An interesting taxi ride

My piece today reflects upon a totally unexpected – and therefore shocking – national news story that occurred yesterday morning, albeit coming to my personal attention only at about 10.40am. Unusually, I had spent my breakfast-time listening to neither the radio nor television because [...]

March 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fond memories revived

I was a huge fan of the satirical series Spitting Image, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the opening of an exhibition Spitting Image From Start To Finish at London’s Cartoon Museum that will run until 8th June and BBC Arena documentary scheduled to be broadcast on BBC4 on 20th [...]

March 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

In the absence of policy, try handwringing

Yesterday, as the Ukrainian crisis vied with the opening of the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa for the attention of the world’s media, the West’s confusion over how best to exert pressure upon – and ultimately restrain – Russia became more evident than ever. However, apart [...]

March 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rejoice! Our strategy is working …

Like all Englishmen good and true, I have 18th September circled in red on my Economist diary. This is the date upon which, hopefully, our friends north of the border will vote resoundingly for Scottish independence. The carefully-worked out strategy of those of us working behind the scenes, not [...]

February 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

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