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Barbie

In a Barbie World

In a world of unrestrained wokeness, Mattel, the manufacturers of Barbie and Ken dolls, have surpassed themselves. In fact, they could be considered to be taking the right royal piss out of the doll purchasing public, mainly young girls (although..). Not content with producing dolls in a variety of shades to please nobody and, in […]

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Pensions

The State Pension Maze 

Do you know at what age you’ll finally get some state supplied weekly lucre? (WASPIs please don’t answer!) N.b. some sources say retirees will be written to, inviting a claim; others say it’s entirely up to the would-be retiree to instigate their claim. Similarly, do you know how many (qualifying) years of National Insurance payments

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Injecting the earth

Dr Green Will See You Now

I am not the first and, with any luck, won’t be the last to comment on the latest load of bollocks from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The RCP, about as woke a bunch as you could imagine, have surpassed themselves with their latest ten-page booklet (about ten pages too long) the Green physician

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Tattoos

To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo?

When I was a kid in the 60s, the only tattoos I was aware of were those on bonafide sailors, usually anchors, even in my children’s picture books and on TV’s Captain Pugwash. Also lowlife types often had ‘blue birds’ on their necks or ‘love’ and ‘hate’ on their knuckles or ‘mild’ and ‘bitter’ over

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Dear Townies

‘Dear Townies’ Book Review

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is found in his magnum opus The Republic, is used to illustrate how humans are ignorant of ultimate reality. It was written as an imagined dialogue between Plato’s brother and his mentor Socrates. According to Socrates, humanity is like people who are chained in a cave in a position

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Greta Thunberg

Grow Up Greta!

Some people have taken offence at my recent Facebook post about Greta Thunberg, which read: ‘Here she is again, the arch-manipulator, smirking and smug. Her family is super-rich. She crossed the Atlantic on a yacht loaned by a millionaire so she could pretend she wasn’t generating CO2. The Jehovah’s Witnesses must be kicking themselves. They’ve

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David Tennant

The Ugly Sin of Identity Politics

(Photograph: DavidDjJohnson at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As someone infamous once said (me, need you ask?), ‘The truth is not mediated by the identity of the speaker’. If it were, one could sidestep debate entirely by identifying the ultimate victim status and taking umbrage accordingly. Increasingly devoid of argument, the Critical

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