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Sometimes violence is the only way

The comedian Jackie Mason has many observations about his Jewish race and one is its lack of violence. As he puts it, if you were walking down the street and saw 4 Jewish accountants approaching  you you would not cross over to the other side. However it was not always thus as in the late 1940s [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

And so the world keep turning

In the world of politics, statesmanship and ‘the way things are’ two developments struck me yesterday as highlighting some of the eternal complexities that those operating power, or aspiring to do so, face in the modern world. Firstly, on the final day of its autumn conference, the British [...]

October 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Happy times are here again!

I particularly enjoy the autumn political parties’ conference season because of the opportunity it provides to watch each of them preaching to the converted and supposedly seeking to reach out to the wider British public. Quite how the media still treats the Lib-Dems as a serious political party [...]

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

First impressions

Shortly after the BBC’s Daily Politics show’s coverage of the House of Commons’ Prime Minister’s Question Time had finished yesterday I had occasion to ring one of my brothers to discuss a subject of mutual interest. As it happens, at the time he was in the middle of a meeting with my other [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ding Ding – round one!

I consider myself an average sort of guy but in a detached sort of way I’m genuinely excited by Jeremy Corbyn’s assent to the Labour leadership. It’s certainly going to herald a fascinating period of politics in Britain, requiring ‘the Establishment’ – all of it – to ask itself [...]

September 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

We’re all being watched, get over it!

On my daily perusal of the UK national newspaper websites this morning I came across the following item about a new Tory government initiative – see here – in THE INDEPENDENT It seems to me that there are points to make on both sides of the issue, as follows: Firstly, that the Government [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s going on, what’s going on …

Last night, channel-hopping after a day of grind sitting at my computer whilst waiting for my pre-prepared Waitrose meal to cook, I came across what I think was described as a Labour Party leadership ‘hustings’ session chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy during the Channel Four News programme [...]

September 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Are they trying to wind us up?

Being a man of simple and straightforward views, I was sufficiently incensed overnight by the announcement of the latest batch of newly-created inmates of the House of Lords that I immediately determined to write about it today. Perhaps the greatest joy of sitting on the sidelines watching the [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stating the obvious

One of my favourite sections of broadsheet newspapers is their ‘letters to the editor’ because – whilst broadly-speaking the breadth of news covered in each of them is similar and given that the following statement does not apply every day – reading the personal contributions of readers who [...]

August 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Waking up and smelling the coffee

Having been smug and secure for decades in my conviction that politics is a simply a game played by politicians, I’m rapidly coming to the view that the EU may be the perfect and least hypocritical example of all. The one thing that can be said for the EU powers-that-be is that at least they make [...]

August 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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