State-sanctioned ‘theft’ from the deceased takes many creative forms: Inheritance Tax, intestacy rules, not honouring ‘in perpetuity’ freehold burial plot deeds, and sneakily it seems even pinching their Premium Bonds (PBs)! Living PB holders may lose out by not using other investment vehicles, but these lack the monthly thrill of imagining a big £5,000 to […]
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I’m sure other people’s noise didn’t use to bother me nearly as much as it does now. For a while I assumed it was simply a facet of age; and yet when I bring this up with my close friends, none of them report a similar experience (at least those who heard me ask the
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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
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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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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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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The Church of England, an institution that is predicted to be extinct by 2062 by mathematician and R number analyst Dr John Hayward, is yet again doing its damned hardest to fulfil the prophecy. Recently, the Church announced a £100 million slavery reparations fund to provide investment in black British communities it claims are still
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On Saturday evening during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the narrowest of close shaves. He was shot in the upper ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who managed to fire eight rounds from an AR-15 rifle before being killed himself by a Secret Service sniper.
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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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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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