Rants
Olympic Overload
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sam Melia: The Gaslighting of Britain
Possibly you are already familiar with the case of Sam Melia – if so, please indulge my rant a moment. If not, you really need
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