It is too easy to criticise our country these days on the basis that nothing is working properly. Broken Britain is certainly an apt description for the country but, for those who care to look a bit closer at our various organisations and institutions, it is not merely a matter of fact that things are […]
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I only catch the BBC Radio 4 Today programme briefly each day. I listen to a few minutes while shaving. It is really all that I can stand. On Friday morning we were treated to the ghastly story of the death, at police hands, of Tyre Nichols. It more than appears (it was all caught
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Happy and glorious, that about sums up the mood of the nation since King Charles announced the plans for his—pared down to the bare essentials—coronation. A snip at two hours long and only 7000 guests – so, not much of a jamboree after all. According to the Royal website, the coronation: ‘will reflect the monarch’s
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We are being subjected to almost saturation coverage of someone who is extremely unimportant and who seems terribly upset because that awful truth has finally dawned on him. We have him on the front pages, the inside pages, the reviews pages, the leaders and op-eds, and even on the letter’s pages. I feel it is
A right royal sausage Read More »
There is no need to turn on the copious comedy channels available on our televisions, the ongoing comedy show that is otherwise described as the United Kingdom knocks them all into a cocked hat. Teachers With nurses, train drivers and university lecturers taking strike action, the teachers’ unions were feeling left out. They too have
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The year has turned, Old Father Time has passed by, and Sadiq Khan has squandered London council tax payers’ money on sending the most expensive virtue signal in Europe up in smoke. Nothing was missed out as fireworks paid tribute to LGBT issues, Ukraine, climate change (I assume these were low emission fireworks) and the
What we learned in 2022 Read More »
The blurb on the back of this book tells you that a hijacked plane blows up mid-air over England and two Indian celebrities, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, miraculously survive. But they then must take sides in the eternal struggle between good and evil. But at whose behest? Well, cutting to the chase, I’m buggered
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As the season of goodwill to all men and transgender women (who are also men) approaches, your resident health and safety correspondent is here to see you safely through the festive season, and to help you negotiate the many hazards that await. After all, we are all completely out of practice having had two years
Wishing you a very careful Christmas Read More »
The UK is engulfed in fog, our ungritted drive is a death trap and even the spiders’ webs are freezing in the garden. It’s what the weather buffs on the BBC refer to as a ‘cold snap’, the definition of which is ‘a brief period of very cold weather’; who could have predicted that in
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I heard the other day from a colleague that a Christmas tree at his place of work had only been half decorated—from the bottom up—because colleagues were insisting on a cherry picker to decorate the upper reaches of the tree safely. I have no idea how high the tree was but being an indoor one
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