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Life on the Dole

Since I fell victim to the Karenocracy at my media company, and was shown the door last summer for not bending the knee to neo-Marxist dogma, I’ve been out of full-time work – except for a short time at the Royal Mail doing Christmas sorting. I now get £92 a week Job Seekers’ Allowance (JSA) to sustain […]

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Athens

It’s Really Not Just Us

TNC readers may remember that I sometimes write about Greece, specifically the island of Crete. Recently, I’ve signed up for a free daily newsfeed from something called ‘Greek Reporter’ (http://www.greekreporter.com) and enjoy scrolling through the half dozen or more Hellenic-focused articles – maybe reading one or two that catch my interest. I was intrigued –

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Sadiq Khan

A Tale of Two Perspectives

In what looks like yet another ecumenical initiative by an adherent to the religion of peace, a 13-year-old schoolboy has stabbed two other teenagers at Kingsbury High School in Brent. The suspect is being held by police, and the counter-terrorism squad is investigating. To read the report in The Guardian you could be forgiven for

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Treasure

Only Disconnect

What do you want? I don’t mean that in a rude way, like a librarian disturbed from their crossword puzzle, but more generally. What are your desires? I’ll wait. And I’ll probably have to wait for a while. You have many. Even if we set aside the ones you’ll never tell anyone… At the most

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Nigel Farage

Reform Has a Tightrope to Walk

Will Reform UK win the next general election? It’s possible, not probable. Between now and then the Establishment – chiefly the liberal political and media class – will throw everything it can at Reform to stop them (witness The Guardian’s pitiful attempts to smear Farage for his schoolboy behaviour). If they do manage to gain

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Meditation

The Illusion of Control

I meditated well this morning. I do sometimes. As I should. I’ve been practicing for nearly 14 years. You would have thought I had got my head round it by now. After all, it only took me 13 years to knock off school. But meditation, it turns out, is harder than readin’, ‘writin’ and ‘rithmetic.

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