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Roger Watson

Old man writing furiously

From the Man Cave XXIII

I am sitting in the man cave besieged by a legion of brass monkeys, wearing two face masks and praying that my GP will not have run out of flu jabs before I can get down there and roll my sleeves up. We are entering – indeed we may already be in the midst of […]

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Old man writing furiously

From the Man Cave XXII

Once again, the man cave is in Italy. I wanted to title this one in Italian, to show how cultured and cosmopolitan I am, but apparently, there is no direct equivalent of ‘man cave’ in Italian. The nearest I could get was Dall’uomo delle caverne, meaning ‘from the caveman’, which I take as a compliment.

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Covid

The Covid Inquiry Whitewash

It has finally arrived, all thousand-plus pages of it: the second UK Covid-19 Inquiry Report. Years in the making, tens of millions of pounds in cost, and delivering exactly what it was constructed to deliver. Not truth, not accountability, not a sober assessment of what happened, but a carefully curated political document in which the conclusions were pre-determined

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From the Man Cave XXI

One is back in Blighty and freezing one’s nuts off in the man cave. The temperature has dropped, and an ‘Orange Weather Alert’ was issued last night to ensure that we all knew that it was going to be cold. Seems that the government and their perpetual mouthpiece the BBC, seem to think that nobody

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Mouth zipped up

No more Morning Glory 

There has been remarkably little comment, where one might expect to see such comment, on the recent sacking of Mike Graham from TalkTV. Mike Graham was the channel’s anchorman, most recently presenting the early morning show Morning Glory. He was a courageous and experienced journalist who was not afraid to express his opinions and to

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Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia on My Mind

Europe’s Migratory Pressure Cooker I’m in Italy this week, which is no hardship. Slightly colder than I’d like but amply compensated by great food, great wine and beautiful women. Well, one woman in particular; gorgeous Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She may have the body of a weak and feeble woman (looks OK to me though)

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James Watson

James Watson RIP

It is hard to believe that James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA’s structure, has died at 97 years old. Yet, it is equally astonishing that he was still with us for so long, given that the double-helical structure of DNA was established in 1953—two years before I was born. I am 70 years

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