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 […]
As if the UK Honours System wasn’t already debased enough, there are those who seek an alternative affirmation of their merit and completely bypass it. In the 60s and 70s, I lived in a small county town (Beverley, capital of the East Riding of Yorkshire – much to the nearby socialist city of Kingston upon
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Have a look, if you can bear it, at this BBC news story. It’s so full of low hanging fruit that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Perhaps the best way is for me, on your behalf, to just go through it and raise the very obvious things as they jump out of the screen.
‘Saving the Earth’ One Shit at a Time Read More »
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
