My experience of the police has been a mixed one. No, I am not a criminal. What I am referring to is how police officers have responded to my requests for help, even my mere presence, over the years, and the responses depended upon which country I was in. Most of my interactions have been […]
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(Photograph: Anything Goes With James English, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Keir Starmer’s callous dismissal of legitimate concerns over the Southport murders, was a major contributory factor to the riots we have witnessed over the past week. That view is shared by a wide cross-section of the electorate, including 48% of Conservative voters
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As the red dawn breaks in the aftermath of the general election, it’s time to take stock. Keir Starmer’s victory may be about as convincing as Jeremy Corbyn’s tailor, but he is nonetheless safely ensconced inside Number 10. The media meanwhile are too busy fixating on the right-wing fracture in UK politics to notice the
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It’s been a long time coming, but finally, inexorably, like a Wuhan lab leak, the truth about Covid-19 appears to be seeping out. Short of running the world’s largest Excel spreadsheet on ‘conspiracy theories which came true’, it appears safe to say that the anti-vaxxers and covidiots among us (other slurs are available from those
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For those of us who don’t lie awake at night fretting about global warming or wake up in the morning in a cold sweat wondering if, when we open the curtains, the world as we know it will still exist, the excellent film Climate: The Movie is exactly what we have been waiting for. In seventy
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(Photograph: Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) With the fêted election of Vaughan Gething as Wales’ First Minister (Europe’s first black head of government incidentally), the British Isles is now exclusively run by those of non-white heritage. And ‘didn’t they do well?!’, as Bruce Forsyth used to say. Rishi’s
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The problem with Scottish nationalism is that it would do nothing to address the fundamental problems Scotland faces, but instead would have added some new ones that we didn’t face before. Scotland is a wonderful place to live. We are sparsely populated which means that countryside is always nearby and largely empty. The Highlands are
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I once worked for a university located in Texas and I noticed that my co-workers took pride in being Texan and had a spirit of independence. Brexit made perfect sense to them. Unlike the English who are expected to apologise abjectly and relentlessly to foreigners for their history and society by masochistic Anglophobes on the
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In an ongoing effort to be, if not down with the kids, then at least on the same chapter as them, I watched a couple of episodes of The Traitors last week. That I was able to confine myself to just two hours tells you what I thought of it. It was not so much
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The 1970’s version of Death on the Nile is one of my favourite comfort films. There is something infectious about the good time Peter Ustinov and David Niven are so obviously having while Angela Lansbury is never less than joyous as she chews the scenery and much of the cast in her portrayal of Salome Otterbourne, the
