According to the Daily Mail (and who are we to query this fount of all knowledge), the UK has 470 delegates at the latest climate beano in Azerbaijan. The comments on the article about this publicly funded jaunt for the chosen few are, of course, entirely predictable. Many futilely point out the obvious contradictions in […]
Net Zero: The New ‘National Pride’ Read More »
Now I’m the first to admit that I’m carrying a couple of extra stones of mainly belly fat, but…. My trips into Hull city centre (and I actually more or less already reside there) are now becoming less and less frequent. Hull, like many smaller cities, is a pale shadow of its former self when
The Fat of the Land Read More »
Do you donate to any well-known charities? Or are you perhaps a paying member of things like The National Trust? Then more fool you I say. Probably in the past I didn’t think too deeply about giving to well-known charities, either on flag days or in little envelopes through the letterbox (but still boycotting those
Charity Begins at Home Read More »
Once upon a time it was considered rather vulgar (at least in my family) to put up Christmas decorations before 1st December, and even that early was thought a bit ‘common’. How we mocked the people who felt it necessary to display anything more than a tasteful bauble-decorated tree, and their collection of received Christmas
It’s Halloween (Again) Read More »
I’ve written before about my disgust with most of the UK Dentistry profession (the woefully awful NHS variety and the Mafia-inspired private practitioners with their new patient waiting lists, rip off first appointment assessment fees and thereafter hard-selling of unnecessary costly cosmetic work). Having finally given up on Hull area dentists, it’s probably been four
Greek Style – Part Two Read More »
I’ve just got back from an idyllic few weeks in Crete, staying mainly off the beaten tourist track as my propensity for a Malia all-inclusive sun, booze and sex fest isn’t that of a teenager, or indeed those Malia-bound much older types always encountered at UK airports, typically wearing football shirts, jogging bottoms, sliders with
Greek Style – Part One Read More »
Unless you routinely shop only at John Lewis/Waitrose or other even more up market emporia, you might not have heard of the phenomenon that is Temu? For anyone who hasn’t heard (really? where have you been?), Temu is a Chinese business that sells goods online with delivery to your own UK address or convenient pick
The year is 2034, the British voting public have again made their decisive choices in the general election – all seats have been won by unopposed LibLabConGreenSF ‘Grand Coalition’ candidates (except for maverick aged Reform MP Nigel Farage in Clacton-on-Sea). No part of the ‘Grand Coalition’ can agree who should be Prime Minister, and the
Why do Church of England (CofE) churches and their ‘with-it’, ‘down with the kids’ modern clergy employ ambulance-chasing tactics to try and attract those who really have no interest in any brand of organised religion whatsoever? Similarly, what’s behind their apparent ambivalence towards traditional King James Bible and 1662 Prayer Book-preferring Christians, who just don’t
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Nostalgia is a very peculiar animal. It’s apparently OK to be nostalgic about the very recent past, say the last twenty-five years, but even then there are things and people who are considered ‘off limits’. It goes without saying however, that it’s definitely ‘far-right’ to hanker after the more distant past, even if this is
