Tragedy of olympic proportions This is old news, but I’m so incensed I just need to offload, so I do apologise. Normal service will resume shortly, although only after I tick a couple of others off my list too. But I am really struggling to get past this one, which is the report that Russia […]
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It’s elementary I really do mean to write something more cheerful. Also better informed by things I actually know something about. But bouyed up by modest success as an armchair general, I’m going to allow myself another prediction and some pertinent, searching observations, and then I will get back to writing something about cooking or
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Just thought I’d leave a note to myself on the day I left my day job. Genuinely, one factor that helped push me off the fence of my prevarication was the astonishing bravery of Marina Ovsyannikova. My goodness – if someone has the courage and the integrity to photobomb Russian news, then I can walk
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Silver Linings? One of the things that got me started on this was COP26 in Glasgow, hoping against hope that something might come out of it, thinking it’d be interesting to document it as it happened just to look back on how it was covered at the time. I still do want to go back
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Interior design Home County Lines has been away for a couple of weeks, but don’t worry – plans are afoot. That’s the thing with a day job: too many ideas, not enough time. Anyway, much bemusement has been expressed at Vlad’s power-trip table, and rightfully so. Jokes about little man syndrome (Vlad looks like a
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Making light of this is, of course, the privilige of someone who feels themself safe and the perogtive of fools: people are losing their lives as I write. Diary accounts of the early days of major events are always interesting for their lack of the retrospect, for their idiosyncratic slants and preoccupations that history will
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The Populist-Lite Playbook for Dummies So… BJ is still here then, like a disgraced paedophile loitering defiantly round the school gates. An inappropriate simili in virtually almost all circumstances I’ll admit, but then… BJ is still here and with attitude, having taken lessons from those denizens of water closet politics, Vlad Poo-tin and Don Trouser
You’re so vain… To be clear from the outset: I do get it. At an intuitive level I do understand the anger at the multiple social events that took place at Downing Street at a itime when such things were either prohibited or very much restricted. I understand the particular anger directed at BJ, not
I wanted to get this on record before 12.00pm PMQs today, to say two things without giving myself the advantage of hindsight. What should BJ do? If I were him, I would step down to trigger a leadership election (or whatever the selection process is called), but put myself forward as a candidate. This would
Great Boo’s up, BJ! It really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? I was thinking that HCL was at risk of losing its cutting-edge relevance, what with yours truly having a day job n’all, but Boris is back with a booze-up to get us all riled and to keep HCL in business.
