One’s nose was to the grindstone last week catching up on such a terrific backlog of work that, by the end of the week, the season of goodwill had faded into the mists of time. Two days were spent in Hatfield. Most of the time was spent driving there. But I spent a day with […]
The Silly Season Continues Read More »
We’ve barely had time to recover from our Christmas hangovers or to start breaking our New Year resolutions, and the silly season has started. Less than a week into 2026 and our lords, masters, foreign countries and corporations have already given us a taste of what is to come for the rest of the year.
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I was sceptical about COVID-19 from the start. I was in Wuhan when it started (something I only realised in retrospect) and one year into the ‘pandemic’ not a single colleague or friend there had contracted it. I also knew that people were not dropping dead in the streets. I was not in denial about
They tried to terrify us with Covid-19 and, sad to report, it largely worked. Most of the population cowered under the cosh of the public health experts, stayed indoors, socially distanced, wore masks and got vaccinated. Some people remain convinced that Covid-19 was an existential threat and that, had it not been for the one-way
We’ve All Got the Flu Read More »
You may already be aware of the content of the King’s Speech on Christmas Day. I am not as I make it a point not to be preached to by entitled, ignorant and condescending scroungers (and I’m a monarchist). But apparently, the speech that was delivered was not what King Charles (peace be upon him)
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There are few things worse in governments, corporations and societies than the mentality that ‘something must be done’. Mostly because nothing needs to be done or that which is done is entirely the wrong thing. Following the dreadful shooting incident in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996 – tennis star Andy Murray was one of the children
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My jaws are still aching this morning following the Free Speech Union Comedy Benefit at the Backyard Comedy Club last night in Bethnal Green. This was comedy like it used to be: offensive, insightful and most importantly, hilarious. The Free Speech Union, the brainchild of Toby Young (now Viscount Young of Acton), was formed after
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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
From the Man Cave XXIII Read More »
It’s that time of year again, Christmas trees, Christmas cards, tinsel and decorations, relatives popping in for a drink and Die Hard on the telly. But it’s not all bad news, and to bring some cheer we offer this year’s TNC Christmas hamper. We have stopped at nothing to seek out the best quality gifts
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When those of us who were enraged by the scandal that was the Tavistock Clinic and its wholesale and unaccountable distribution of puberty-blockers to very young children pointed out that this was an experiment without a control group, we didn’t mean that they should go and run one. But that is precisely what is going
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