How incredibly helpful of the Government, even in its dying days, to have nipped the trans/schools issue in the bud by providing ‘Non-Statutory Guidance for schools and colleges in England over Gender Questioning Children’. Let’s first set aside these three telling facts: 1 That we have, in name only apparently, a UK government who feel […]
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People with nothing better to do or think about, and with a penchant for triviality, seem obsessed with every aspect of the British Royal Family. And (if the Daily Mail is to be believed), also with the seemingly ever expanding number of foreign, but mainly European, royals and even dispossessed royals on their various social
OK readers, you can already guess where this diatribe is heading. I agree that to ‘our’ 650 hangers-on, £1million is the sort of loose change found down the back of their John Lewis expense account sofas. To the rest of us though, here in normal-land, it’s still a good premium bond or lottery windfall. What
I’ve just been into Asda for a few bits and pieces. As usual, I chose to join a queue for a real checkout person (the automated checkouts persistently go wrong whenever I attempt to use them, and notwithstanding the unwanted intrusion of them now photographing the customer, they don’t yet seem to recognise that a
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Hands up who remembers being told not to waste paper and particularly, as a shopper, not to use environmentally unfriendly paper bags and old-fashioned paper carrier bags in order to ‘save a tree’? The more environmentally friendly alternative that was in response developed was those thin clear plastic bags that are a bugger to open
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No matter what the topic is, there is now always an “expert”, and normally several as they do tend to pontificate in packs, to tell us “non-experts” what to think, and increasingly, if we let them, even what to do. I don’t mean the “I’m a home decor expert and can tell you why grey
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Any avid reader of alternative news/current debate media will have assimilated almost by electronic osmosis a rapidly expanding list of current worries. These worries probably started with the Covid farce, “vaxx” outcomes, “climate emergency/Net Zero”, immigration, etc. etc., as well as personal pet-hates of choice. Philip Larkin’s “They Fuck You Up” (aka ’This be the
Following swiftly on from Rishy Sunak (temporary PM in name only now) “reaching out” for ideas with his dodgy questionnaire, I’ve today been touched (and not in a good way) to be the recipient of a letter from the hallowed NHS also “reaching out”. Clearly the joint sender’s of this appeal for my help, Raghib
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(Photograph: UK Prime Minister, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) It is not every day that the Prime Minister, or anyone else on a six-figure salary, writes to ask me for help, and so I was surprised this week to receive an unsolicited letter and questionnaire from the PM. No doubt it would have
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