We’ve refrained so far from referring to ‘sausagegate’ in these pages. After all, anyone can make a mistake. Many of us are old enough to remember 1980 when the SAS (Sausage Alert Service) rescued the sausages from the grip of the terrorists during the Iranian Embassy siege. An easy mistake to make Sir Keir. But […]
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Wales, essentially now a political blemish on the face of the well-known landscape of the west of England due to the workings of the Welsh Assembly, is a place most people in the rest of Britain don’t give a hoot about. For that reason, the Assembly (sorry, the Senned) must keep doing things to ensure
Ennobled by Tony Blair, Lord Waheed Alli was the first ‘openly’ gay member of the House of Lords. He also claims to be an ‘openly gay Muslim’ which not only seems like a contradiction in terms but, if he bumps into the wrong kind of Muslims, also a life-shortening strategy. I guess he doesn’t have
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We are being assaulted by such a plethora of viruses these days that it is a wonder any of us are still alive. We had barely emerged from the Covid-19 scam and its bewildering array of scariants, then monkeypox trotted along threatening to wipe us out. Now we have bird flu, West Nile virus, Oropouche
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(Photograph: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As if Kingston upon Hull did not have enough problems. Once a thriving fishing port, that industry is long gone; we were the most bomb-damaged place by area of the city in Britain during the Second World War; we are home to what is considered one of
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Things are getting so bad in the UK under the Starmer Labour government, that it almost (almost) makes you hanker after the bumbling incompetence which characterised the end of days of the Sunak ‘Conservative’ government. It was hard to believe that things were going to get any worse, but they did, and all the signs
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As I sit shivering in my garden office, debating with my wife whether it is time to put on the central heating, I try to conjure up the halcyon days of the summer of 2024 when we languished in the garden, cold beer in hand and the traditional handkerchiefs knotted round our heads. Except that
Welcome to this edition of our periodic newsletter. We promised not to burden you with such newsletters unless we had something to share with you, but there have been so many developments recently that we thought it was time to update all staff on our latest initiatives. New guidelines on Gender Health The guidelines are
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I have had a lifelong fear of wasps. I’m not sure where this unusually intense fear originated. Interestingly, it took many years before I was actually stung by one, and it turned out to be a minor event, like a needle prick. Although I have yet to be stung by a bee, they surprisingly don’t
If you have ever wondered what it is like being in the midst of a revolution just look around now. This may be a revolution in which the buildings are left standing, but it is a revolution, nevertheless. The ‘long march’ through the institutions was accomplished long ago and we are now witnessing the finishing
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