Let’s spare a thought for poor old Vlad the Putin. He must be barely able to sleep these days, what with the war and all. But he also has to bear the burden of being expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest, Sainsburys changing the spelling of ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ on its chicken Ки́їв (The New […]
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If you are into Vikings—and a great many people are—then there is a televisual feast of programmes available on Netflix. I reckon that if I sat down now and watched them all end to end that I may be dead before I get to the end. But what is not to like about Vikings? Big
All the news that is fit to print seems to be coming from a place called ‘Kiv’. At least that’s what it sounds like to me and, in fact, the updated spelling of ‘Kyiv’ for what we used to spell as ‘Kiev’ has been the subject of much comment. It is so convenient that this
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After a week away I returned to catch up on the previous weekend’s newspapers and a full page Saturday interview in The Daily Telegraph with former cricketer Michael Vaughan caught my eye. I wish it hadn’t. Vaughan, as many will know, was at the heart of a race row storm in Yorkshire cricket over inappropriate
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It is possible that many readers will already have heard of the Dutch brand of chocolate Tony’s Chocolonely (other brands are available). But it is equally possible that some may not, so here goes. Tony’s Chocolonely is, essentially, an edible virtue signal and the brand came to the wider attention of the public when it
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A Globalist Odyssey Dr Niall McCrae & Prof Roger Watson Introduction The concerted and radically interventionist response to the Covid-19 pandemic has ignited speculative thinking on the plans of a putative global elite. In this two-part essay, Niall McCrae and Roger Watson take a historical perspective, focusing on two organisations: Moral Re-Armament and the Trilateral
I popped out at dusk one evening this week to post a letter (for younger readers, this was how people used to communicate until the late 1900s). I live across the road from my previous employer, the University of Hull, and I saw there was a flag at the top of the flagpole on the
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The often called ‘jewel in the crown’ of the British welfare state is beginning to look more like a ‘fly in the ointment’ of the nation. When I see that they are continuing with restrictions to visitors entering hospitals, with some places imposing an outright ban, I wonder if the ‘N’ in NHS stands for
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I retired from the higher education sector earlier this year having taught for 32 years in four universities. When people ask if I am enjoying retirement, I recount the various things I still do such as PhD supervision, online teaching on overseas courses and editing an academic journal. But I assure them I am enjoying
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We have just endured the longest three weeks of our lives, by which I am referring to the ‘sombrero squashing’ three weeks of lockdown that began in March 2020. Along with a host of other restrictions, however vestigial, this endured until February 2022 and, as I write, it is still not completely over. Civil service
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