Dear readers, I apologise for the lack of TNC activity this week. Some of you may have noticed that the website was temporarily ‘suspended’ – this was (surprisingly) not due to Keir Starmer shutting us down, but more to do with the fact that the hosting had simply expired without my knowledge. The unexpected break […]
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I didn’t sleep well last night. I woke up laughing. Strange, I thought. Never had that before. For the first time in my life that I can recall, my dream was apparently sufficiently entertaining that I started to giggle and woke me up. A friend was solemnly telling me that Vladimir Putin was trying to
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Handshaking was not the sort of event at which victory was possible. The end of term meeting with one’s tutors (sometime in the presence of the college’s Master) was the sort of thing where survival was the best that could be hoped for. The aim was to get out unscathed. Mission Accomplished, I thought when
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Over the last 30 or so years I’ve been fortunate enough to meet many famous people, including politicians and those adjacent to politics. I thought it might be reasonably interesting to tell you about a few of those meetings… David Cameron, ex-PM During my very brief dalliance with the Conservative Party in 2009, I met
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Life hits us all hard, but especially young women Last weekend I caught up with a female friend, Anna*, from the US, whom I hadn’t seen in many years. We had a nice, long chat. I asked her how her daughter Nicola is. “She’s well,” she told me. “She’s now living with her girlfriend in
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Long time readers of my column will know I am on the losing side of a brutal, seemingly endless divorce. I am also suffering parental alienation, which means my two beautiful daughters are suffering it too. That pain is greater than anything a loving father should be expected to bear. Thanks to an initial court
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Peter Murrell the political activist, collector, and Scottish vaudeville supporting act has been sent to prison for five years for stealing money from the separatist SNP, and spending it on miscellaneous items in an extended and eccentric shopping spree with no detectable heterosexual pattern to it. Sentencing Mr Murrell at the High Court in Edinburgh,
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One’s outrage is hard to contain. Netflix recently acquired the 2010 BBC re-make of Upstairs Downstairs. The re-make had a very short life of only two seasons due to the success of ITV with Downton Abbey which won the ratings war by a country mile. Even the fragrant Keeley Hawes and a troupe of established actors could not breathe enough life into this new take
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Children as young as 11 will be taking part in a clinical trial assessing the risks and benefits of puberty-blocking drugs, with recruitment expected to begin in August – unless ongoing legal action delays it further. The drugs temporarily halt the body’s natural hormone production, pausing the physical changes of puberty. This prevents the development of secondary sex
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The announcement that the SS Great Britain is to be rebranded because some visitors may misunderstand what the initials ‘SS’ stand for is one of those stories that initially appears too ridiculous to be true. Surely nobody could seriously believe that one of Britain’s most famous ships is somehow commemorating the slave trade? Surely somebody, somewhere in
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