My thoughts as we begin another month: One of the greatest feats of self-control any of us pull off is when the words “I told you so” cross our synapses but not our lips. This is Labour’s problem with “Clothesgate”. Look at any word cloud about the Prime Minister and after “Boring”, the next most […]
Principles are funny things. When they apply to others, we tend to regard them as hard and fast rules, never to be broken; when to ourselves, more as rules of thumb, to be followed up to the point at which they conflict with our other desires. Rare is he who always does what he says
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It has not been an edifying experience. As the country’s carnival of democracy slouches towards its inevitable ending, it is hard to say that it is much better for it. We have learned nothing to make us think well of the political class; they appear, given the amount of obfuscation from both sides, not to
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“A person often meets his fate on the road he took to avoid it” Jean de la Fontaine That people might, by trying to avoid something, make it more likely is an idea which has fascinated me since I was a child. Whichever comic (remember them?) I took (Hotspur?) featured a story one week
(Photograph: Allan warren, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Social media is a transport device. Scroll through your feed and you will be whisked away to join your friends on holiday or at dinner (why didn’t they invite me, you may wonder). It might take you to some far-flung land where news is being
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I am a member of an oppressed minority. Unlike other groups which claim that label, however, I have no legal protections to defend me from bigotry. No-one touts their “allyship” with me. Nor are there well-funded campaigns telling people to be nice to me. I just have to suck up my status as a second-class
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(Photograph: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Like the enemies of Cpl. Jones’ recollection in Dad’s Army, Keir Starmer really doesn’t like it up him. After two days of mole-like burrowing in the aftermath of the weekend’s revelations about his party’s candidate in Rochdale, he eventually surfaced on Tuesday to squirm his
In an ongoing effort to be, if not down with the kids, then at least on the same chapter as them, I watched a couple of episodes of The Traitors last week. That I was able to confine myself to just two hours tells you what I thought of it. It was not so much
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The 1970’s version of Death on the Nile is one of my favourite comfort films. There is something infectious about the good time Peter Ustinov and David Niven are so obviously having while Angela Lansbury is never less than joyous as she chews the scenery and much of the cast in her portrayal of Salome Otterbourne, the
The internet has not, let us be honest, been an unalloyed blessing. Being able to communicate with almost any individual on the planet is marvellous. Being the target of a Twitter storm is not. Being able to buy almost anything at the click of a button is a boon, but many things are available which
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