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Peake of achievement

Yesterday, almost by chance, I watched the take-off of the Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that took with it the European Space agency British astronaut Major Tim Peake to a rendezvous with the International Space Station. I had been out shopping and, upon returning, [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Chocks away, chaps … !

On this rather important day for the Government, the Labour Party and indeed the nation here’s a link to a withering piece from Defence specialist Patrick Cockburn that appears today on the website of  – THE [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

To bomb or not to bomb

I don’t know about you, but the funny thing is the more I consider the Government’s desire to join the supposed ‘coalition of the willing’ to bomb ISIS into oblivion in Syria the more I think it’s a fifty-fifty call at best. The core of my continued dithering is my concern over the [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s a hard one, innit?

Yesterday I was out-and-about and only caught snatches of David Cameron’s statement on the subject of extending the UK’s current bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq to Syria, either ‘live’ or subsequently on news/current affairs programmes. I’m neither a hawk nor a peacenik by inclination but [...]

November 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubled times

It gives me no pleasure at all that my subject today is sport as it relates to integrity and morality but the spate of recent media revelations has caused me to question some of the fundamentals of human life – it is really that important. From my earliest memories of learning things at my [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Give me strength!

I’m currently sitting at my computer just after 2330 hours on Sunday 22nd of November 2015, positively steaming at what I’ve just been listening to on the Stephen Nolan Show on Radio Five Live. Having gone to bed even earlier than normal (1940 hours), I awoke not long ago and decided that of [...]

November 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nuremberg 70 years on

70 years ago the Nuremberg trial took place. To constitue a tribunal from the diverse legal systems of the 4 Allies – France, Russia, UK and USA – so quickly was a considerable achievement and it was sad it did not endure as an international court of justice . Winston Churchill in [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reaction to Paris

I’m not in the business of discussing the various short and long-term implications of the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday (13th November) because they’re evolving as new developments in the investigation as to what happened and why occur every day – maybe I should say ‘every few [...]

November 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

What you allow is what you get

Right now, thanks to yesterday’s media explosion following the publication of the report by the Independent Commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into systematic doping in the sport of athletics, there is no shortage of data, analysis and expert comment available for the [...]

November 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only saying what everyone else is thinking

At 4.00pm UK time this afternoon the Southern Hemisphere countries of Australia and New Zealand will contest the final of the 2015 Rugby World Cup at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London. As I type this I have no idea which of them will lift the William Webb Ellis trophy and in one sense it [...]

October 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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