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Taking stock but always in vain

When the time comes to look back over the course of UK’s coronavirus crisis – and possibly the world’s too – one aspect that will need examining in depth is the general degree of public semi-madness, concern and anxiety generated by the endless amounts of rumour, speculation, fantasy, [...]

May 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

VE-Day commemorations and something quite different

With the 75th anniversary of VE Day coming up on Friday (8th May) I had in advance ‘scheduled for recording’ last night’s 8.00pm offering on Channel Four of VE Day in Colour – Britain’s Biggest Party but then watched it as it went out anyway. As it happens I found its mix of colour and [...]

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hancock’s half hour

The ridiculous controversy over Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock’s highly ambitious announcement that the Government would be doing 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by 30th April – and specifically as to whether the Government had achieved its target or not when the [...]

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Yesterday was a Thursday (I think)

Yesterday – just another in lockdown, albeit with a variation supplied by the inclement weather – gave me the opportunity for a touch of rumination on the future and life after the coronavirus crisis, if and when there is some. Over these past few weeks not a few I have spoken to have [...]

May 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

We are where we are

Last night at about 7.40pm by chance – not long before my standard bedtime – I joined the BBC1 broadcast of its long-running news & current affairs investigative programme Panorama (season 29, episode 17, entitled Has The Government Failed the NHS?) in which reporter Richard Bilton [...]

April 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

There are always some, aren’t there?

It would seem that – no doubt fuelled in part by the media’s constant thirst for news stories and general frustration at three weeks of lockdown – the number of UK Covidiots is gradually increasing. See here for a vivid example, as reported by Colin Dury for – THE INDEPENDENT Amidst the [...]

April 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Just another Thursday …

Surveying the ongoing wreckage piling up as the UK struggles on into its fourth week (is it?) of lockdown I’m very glad that my connection with the modern world of social media remains so slight and fleeting, partly because I don’t understand much of it and – even if I did – I wouldn’t [...]

April 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

In Praise of Rod Liddle and Dale Campbell-Savours

Last Sunday Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times delivered a stinging attack on scientists and their inability to agree. He particularly had in his sights Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College who has form of over-estimating deaths in bird flu, swine flu and mad cow disease. One of the problems, [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make it up (again)

What is that old saying – “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”? It occurred to me over the weekend that, unintentionally or otherwise, the home truths are beginning to come home in spades as we enter the third [or is it the fourth?] week of the lockdown with the Government having [...]

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The routine of it all

This far into the lockdown – I don’t know about you – but it seems to me that for most of us it is establishing a state of equilibrium somewhere between the positive and negative. Contrast this with the days after I first “retired” (or rather perhaps, my career left me) I used to rant on [...]

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

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