The New Conservative

Martin Rispin

Street musician

Streets For People

  Much as I admired the calm common sense of the WPC who took no nonsense from some ‘offended Moslems’ in the East End: Offended by a Christian preacher. Called the police. Literally cannot get it into their heads that in England it is not a crime to say something they might not like about […]

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Athens

It’s Really Not Just Us

TNC readers may remember that I sometimes write about Greece, specifically the island of Crete. Recently, I’ve signed up for a free daily newsfeed from something called ‘Greek Reporter’ (http://www.greekreporter.com) and enjoy scrolling through the half dozen or more Hellenic-focused articles – maybe reading one or two that catch my interest. I was intrigued –

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Scotch broth

More Food for Thought

For years, I’ve enjoyed a quick lunch composed of a tin of Heinz Scotch Broth (the most ‘homemade’ tasting of all their soup offerings) with a smoked pork sausage i.e. the brown shiny curled ones that come in a vacuum pack inside a foil outer package, cut up into chunks and added to the soup.

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Syringe

Too Many Pricks 

I’ll state upfront that I have no medical qualifications or particular in-depth knowledge / experience of medicine, or even of the NHS as a real patient for many years now. Why this disclaimer? Well mainly because what follows is my own supposition, sparked by an unexpected phone call from my GP’s Surgery last week.  Back

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Airport

A Flight to Remember

Unless you’re prepared to put yourself to significant extra expense and hassle, then getting to your chosen destination in EU Land inevitably means using the nearest regional airport and whichever ‘budget’ airline flies from there. Sadly, up North these days there Is usually no other choice. Here up North, unless prepared to endure the hell

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Hull Marina

Make Way for the Mayor

This will be a familiar story to many around the UK, but here goes anyway. Ambitious, and dare I say it, possibly sensible plans for a Yorkshire-wide devolution deal (eight cities and a population almost the same as Scotland’s) really never went anywhere because of petty rivalries between cities and ridings. [You only need to

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Jail

Freedom RIP

Imagine living in the past, say sometime still in the modern era but pre-WW2; how soul destroying it must have been to have been held back socially, economically, politically, or career-wise because of traits such as being female, non-white, disabled, Jewish, the wrong sort of Christian, homosexual, born of humble stock or out of wedlock

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