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Must do better

My Bank Holiday weekend was slightly strained at times for domestic reasons, not least because I hadn’t realised that it was one, if you see what I mean. As a retired person, I still have weekdays and weekends, but they tend to all blend into one and in my book a Monday is a ‘weekday’ – end [...]

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unfolding events cause abandonment of a plan

This is the naked truth. I rose just after 11.00pm last night – slightly earlier than normal, to be honest – in order to begin my (first) day shift. Shortly afterwards I began hearing ‘breaking news’ on Radio Five Live about the explosion(s) at the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana [...]

May 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s going on

I awoke in a cold sweat last night after having a nightmare. Or possibly it was after realising that I hadn’t been having a nightmare at all but that in fact everything I had been ‘experiencing’ was actually true. It had to be one or the other. ‘Alternative facts’ and ‘Fake news’ [...]

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voyage half-way through?

A snapshot of Thursday 18th May 2017. Just another General Election campaign day: another manifesto; several carefully ‘stage-managed’ appearances in front of the media; hundreds of journalists searching in vain for an Election-related story remotely interesting to them and indeed their [...]

May 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Strange times and indeed a strange world

Yesterday (7th May) I followed my habitual Sunday morning routine of watching the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 from 9.00am followed immediately by Nicky Campbell’s weekly audience debate show The Big Questions an hour later – whilst flicking through The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

May 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voting issues

For several years on this website I have bored readers with my resolutely negative view of Western democratic political elites – not least those of all parties within the UK version – because of their patronising attitude towards the voting electorate. I’ve even suggested that anyone [...]

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Future to the back

Perhaps comic Frankie Howard’s most famous catch-phrase (I recall it most often in the context of his vehicle Up Pompeii!) was a staged aside protest to his audience as they were laughing at a previous insult/gag he’d just cracked about some hapless fellow character: “No don’t – [...]

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Now the fun begins

As a self-professed cynic I sometimes get accused by readers of not taking politics seriously enough in the context of world affairs and the nation’s future etc., but I cannot help that. My area of special interest is the ‘game’ and its procedures rather than the respective party policies and [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A decidedly unimpressive outing

Being en route to London at the time I was unable to watch yesterday’s BBC1 Sunday Politics show as it was being transmitted (unusually) mid-afternoon due to priority being granted to the Beeb’s coverage of the London Marathon. Instead, after a little technical difficulty, I managed to locate [...]

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

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