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The Colours of Our Skins

When someone accuses you of something widely thought disreputable, something you don’t believe you are guilty of, you deny it, instinctively. Unfortunately, this makes you subject to the Mandy Rice-Davies Manoeuvre: Well, he would, wouldn’t he? (Often abbreviated to MRDA: ‘Mandy Rice-Davis applies’.) And this is a manoeuvre to which neither Steven Ward’s defence counsel […]

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Pope Francis

I Believe in Climate Change…

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by Roman Catholics at each Mass which in Latin begins ‘Credo in unum Deum…’ (‘I believe in one God…’) appears to have been replaced by ‘Credo in caeli mutuatione…’ (I believe in climate change…’).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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Keir Starmer

Dying the Starmer Way

If the polls are correct, Keir Starmer is likely to be elected as prime minister with a thumping majority. God help us. It is not only the mad woke legislation that Starmer and crew will impose that we should be worried about; it is also Starmer’s promise that he will give MPs a free vote

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Hollyoaks

Hollywokes  

Hollyoaks is a popular soap on Channel 4, its target audience primarily composed of young teenagers and adults between the ages of 16-24. It has a decent rating of 3.6/5 and is enjoyed by 70% of google users, which beats Coronation Street at 68%. However, needless to say, it has become the latest show to

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The Royal Family

Royal Reflections

People with nothing better to do or think about, and with a penchant for triviality, seem obsessed with every aspect of the British Royal Family. And (if the Daily Mail is to be believed), also with the seemingly ever expanding number of foreign, but mainly European, royals and even dispossessed royals on their various social

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Margaret Thatcher

The Battle for Everything

I grew up thinking that the world would be forever divided between Communism and Capitalism, the West, and the East, for which reason the end of the Cold War with the complete intellectual defeat of socialism as an ideology came as a surprise. No one foresaw in 1980 that ten years later there would be

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