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Roger Watson

King Charles and starmer at ramadan

Lent Mubarak! 

This year, Ramadan and Lent are going head to head, with the start of Ramadan falling on Shrove Tuesday – the day right before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. So they’re off, heading down the back straight as it were, competing for attention. Obviously, our leaders at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster heard the outcry

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Old man writing furiously

From the Man Cave XXVI

The man cave has been uninhabited for a while as I have been working in Italy. It was cold and wet, but I would far rather be cold and wet in Italy than in Hull. The food is better and so is the wine. And so is the Prime Minister. I have expressed my crush on Italian Prime Minister, gorgeous Giorgia Meloni, in

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Sadiq Khan

A Tale of Two Perspectives

In what looks like yet another ecumenical initiative by an adherent to the religion of peace, a 13-year-old schoolboy has stabbed two other teenagers at Kingsbury High School in Brent. The suspect is being held by police, and the counter-terrorism squad is investigating. To read the report in The Guardian you could be forgiven for

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King Charles III

Harmony at Last 

There are many ways to describe Finding Harmony, the King’s earnest cinematic meditation on the state of the planet. Perhaps the most accurate is endless eco-drivel. The film opens in the usual manner: soft light; hushed voiceovers; and the sense that something profoundly important is about to be said. We are told about the great

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From the Man Cave XXV

Global warming is really taking its toll up here in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It’s freezing cold again and makes the actual man cave bearable only for the shortest of visits with the Dyson heater at full blast and as high a temperature as it is capable of. One of these days Mrs Watson

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