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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Hands up who remembers being told not to waste paper and particularly, as a shopper, not to use environmentally unfriendly paper bags and old-fashioned paper carrier bags in order to ‘save a tree’? The more environmentally friendly alternative that was in response developed was those thin clear plastic bags that are a bugger to open
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No matter what the topic is, there is now always an “expert”, and normally several as they do tend to pontificate in packs, to tell us “non-experts” what to think, and increasingly, if we let them, even what to do. I don’t mean the “I’m a home decor expert and can tell you why grey
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The issue of conscription is back on the books again due to our likely involvement in a war with Russia and, who knows, we may even have a go at the Iranians in due course. Since Downing Street has ruled out a return to conscription, we can assume that this is most probably going to
Comedian Leo Kearse suggested on GB News Headliners that we could advertise our NHS waiting lists more forcefully or the convoluted system for trying to make an appointment with a GP. However, that is unlikely to work given that GP waiting rooms are often full of immigrant families who must have a special NHS app. That is, one that works.
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The exponential rise of artificial intelligence is such that even the middle-aged, techno illiterati, such as myself, are now aware of it. The human race appears to be living in something of an AI dawn, with opinion divided on whether the future will lead us inexorably to a Terminator like dystopia, or the promised land
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