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Roger Watson

climate change

Climate: The Movie

For those of us who don’t lie awake at night fretting about global warming or wake up in the morning in a cold sweat wondering if, when we open the curtains, the world as we know it will still exist, the excellent film Climate: The Movie is exactly what we have been waiting for. In seventy […]

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Pope Francis

I Believe in Climate Change…

The Nicene Creed, recited by Roman Catholics at each Mass which in Latin begins ‘Credo in unum Deum…’ (‘I believe in one God…’) appears to have been replaced by ‘Credo in caeli mutuatione…’ (I believe in climate change…’). The Holy Roman Church, to which I belong, has been captured by the climate catastrophist lobby and,

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CO2

Net Zero Nuts 

As a regular user of Trainline, the one-stop-shop website for rail travel in the UK and Europe, I receive many unsolicited emails from them most of which I ignore. But I’m a sucker for an email that is headed ‘Congratulations Roger’, as I assume they are going to offer me something. So it was when

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian’s Stonewall

I was taken to Hadrian’s Wall as a kid by my parents. Being Scottish, we were keen to see this mighty structure; built to keep us out of England and confined to our native land. And this was long before the SNP were in charge. We were somewhat underwhelmed -we had a higher wall around

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The Koran

The Book of Muslim 

Your intrepid Deputy Editor was in London this week with Mrs Watson to see a show. It had long been on my bucket list to see The Book of Mormon. One of my daughters warned me that it was offensive from the get-go. I was not disappointed. In fact, as a Christian, I was so

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In The Navy

In The Navy

Many years ago my wife and I had dinner with a very senior and once prominent civil servant and his wife. The civil servant was seeing his days out in the House of Lords. They were charming and interesting company, indiscreet even. When talking about our respective families, it transpired that their daughter was an

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New model army

New Model Army 

The issue of conscription is back on the books again due to our likely involvement in a war with Russia and, who knows, we may even have a go at the Iranians in due course. Since Downing Street has ruled out a return to conscription, we can assume that this is most probably going to

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Boy at window

You Couldn’t Make It Up

There is nothing like inclement weather to bring the best out of the nanny state. We are having some stormy weather here in the UK and you could, honestly, be forgiven for thinking that wind is a completely new phenomenon.  We are experiencing Storm Isha, soon to be followed by Storm Jocelyn and we must

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