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Humber bridge

Never Dull in Hull

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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The Insurance Racket

The Insurance Racket 

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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chickens

Tories Chicken Out

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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The Garrick Club

Leave the Garrick Alone!

(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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Bureaucracy

Non-Statutory Guidance

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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Shopping

A Taste of the Future 

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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Recycling

The Perils of Recycling

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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New model army

New Model Army 

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

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