From my perspective, which today happens to be Singapore, I am halfway through a ten-flight round the world tour of international conferences. I have ‘done’ Hong Kong and mainland China; next up New York and Washington DC. I wonder how much longer I can keep this up. I do it regularly. I often reflect, and […]
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‘The first casualty of war is the truth’ – that’s as true today as it’s always been, and never more so than in the wake of the Southport riots, which have finally claimed their first victim. No, not an illegal immigrant, safely ensconced in his four-star accommodation; not the wretched Old Bill, who heroically faced
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There is something new in my house. Silence! For the last three weeks the telly has been on morning, noon and night. The sound of breathless commentary, banal and repetitive exchanges between yesterday’s stars all against a background of cheering and crowd roaring has dominated. Mrs Watson is an Olympics nut and there’s hardly a
They say ‘It’s never dull in Hull’. Whoever ‘they’ are, clearly haven’t yet clocked the dreadful weather that this east coast city is routinely prone to (yes, the Humber Estuary is part of the English Coast, so Kingston upon Hull is actually firmly on the English coast, albeit with no beaches but lots of lovely
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Keen-eyed readers may have noticed my absence of late – nothing more serious than taking a chill pill (actually a long holiday). I have finally stopped reading any of the other sceptical sites (except I’m still obviously reading TNC as it isn’t so predictable, and has a spark of humour and originality) and am generally
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Like many of you, I am a sufferer of Conservative estrangement syndrome. However, it was only yesterday that I ruled out voting for them at the next election. About a year ago my attention was drawn to a consultation being conducted by DEFRA (Does everything effing rong again), into the registration of small flocks of
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(Photograph: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The Guardian, in its relentless and ever increasingly anachronistic crusade against something called the Patriarchy, has once again demanded that the Garrick, one of the few remaining London gentlemen’s clubs, admits female members. As the appropriately named Amelia Gentlemen, a journalist with The Guardian, tells us
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How incredibly helpful of the Government, even in its dying days, to have nipped the trans/schools issue in the bud by providing ‘Non-Statutory Guidance for schools and colleges in England over Gender Questioning Children’. Let’s first set aside these three telling facts: 1 That we have, in name only apparently, a UK government who feel
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I’ve just been into Asda for a few bits and pieces. As usual, I chose to join a queue for a real checkout person (the automated checkouts persistently go wrong whenever I attempt to use them, and notwithstanding the unwanted intrusion of them now photographing the customer, they don’t yet seem to recognise that a
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Possibly you are already familiar with the case of Sam Melia – if so, please indulge my rant a moment. If not, you really need to hear this one. Melia was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court earlier this month, for the crime of producing offensive stickers. Yes, I’m not joking, but
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