You would imagine that proposals to devolve politically the area where you live would be big news, especially in the area where you live. But the first I knew about this was when I saw a sticker with a QR code at a bus stop in Hull. We were exhorted to “have our say” on […]
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Our right Royal Navy has been the subject of ridicule on these pages before and they’re here again. Royal Navy ships remain tied to the quay in Portsmouth for lack of fuel, our latest and greatest aircraft carrier was towed to the scrapyard and they have long celebrated their members (no pun intended) who are
To vote or not to vote? That is the question. Choosing who to vote for has never been a problem for me. When I was a long-haired student and member of the Labour Party I duly voted Labour and continued doing so for many years, until I saw the light. That particular light was Margaret
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We are through Ramadan and Eid Mubarak has been called which means that Muslims can now get back to eating during the day instead of eating all night. ‘Oh’, I hear you say, you thought that they fasted? Well, no, not exactly. If you missed the fact that Ramadan has been upon us then you
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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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‘Diane Abbott brushes off racist comments as ‘just banter’ is a headline you will never see, any more than ‘Imam urges peaceful coexistence with Christians’, or ‘Gary Lineker is, in fact, a twat’. Of course, there may be some Imams who do urge their followers to tone down the caliphate stuff and plenty of folk
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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by Roman Catholics at each Mass which in Latin begins ‘Credo in unum Deum…’ (‘I believe in one God…’) appears to have been replaced by ‘Credo in caeli mutuatione…’ (I believe in climate change…’).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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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
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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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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