As a longstanding supporter of Nigel Farage, I think it’s not only reasonable but incumbent on me to highlight whenever he strays off the reservation. Generally speaking, Farage deserves enormous credit: he’s been on the right side of history for most issues throughout his political career (Brexit, Trump, immigration, Covid [albeit belatedly], Net Zero etc), […]
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According to the Daily Mail (and who are we to query this fount of all knowledge), the UK has 470 delegates at the latest climate beano in Azerbaijan. The comments on the article about this publicly funded jaunt for the chosen few are, of course, entirely predictable. Many futilely point out the obvious contradictions in
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With many thanks to ChatGPT for the above title and after fellow Hull resident Martin Rispin’s The Fat of the Land article in these pages, I was inspired to reflect on the sheer size of the nursing profession in the UK. I don’t mean the size of the profession as a whole; I mean the
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Now I’m the first to admit that I’m carrying a couple of extra stones of mainly belly fat, but…. My trips into Hull city centre (and I actually more or less already reside there) are now becoming less and less frequent. Hull, like many smaller cities, is a pale shadow of its former self when
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Do you donate to any well-known charities? Or are you perhaps a paying member of things like The National Trust? Then more fool you I say. Probably in the past I didn’t think too deeply about giving to well-known charities, either on flag days or in little envelopes through the letterbox (but still boycotting those
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In modern day Britain, we are allowed to mourn our murdered children, friends or relatives. We are free to be appalled. We are also permitted to lay flowers by the coagulating blood of our kith and kin, as our political leaders walk solemnly towards the farewell postcards and tear-drenched bouquets for a tight minute of
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I am sure that one should not take pleasure in others’ misery. The Left’s congenital schadenfreude whenever conservatives are convicted of thought crimes notwithstanding, two wrongs never make a right. But, by God am I enjoying the left-wing liberal meltdown following the resounding victory of Donald Trump in the US elections. “How can I count
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In quite possibly the greatest comeback since Lazarus, Donald Trump has done the unthinkable – becoming the 45th and 47th President of the United States. Despite predictions of a close race, Trump won the Electoral College comfortably, control of the Senate, the swing states, and even the popular vote. Yes, I know about Grover Cleveland
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(Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor / Treasury, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3>, via Wikimedia Commons) You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the week by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down…. (Abraham Lincoln) Money was created as a
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Once upon a time it was considered rather vulgar (at least in my family) to put up Christmas decorations before 1st December, and even that early was thought a bit ‘common’. How we mocked the people who felt it necessary to display anything more than a tasteful bauble-decorated tree, and their collection of received Christmas
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