The Donald is a soft target, but seeing as he’s a man seemingly on a crusade against fake news, I’ll take him at his word…. In his post-indictment rambling, the former president said the following “While we are living through the darkest hours of American history, I can say that at least for this moment […]
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What, the big green man-turned-monster is back? No, not that one, the one on the right. Prison hulks Surely we don’t have those anymore? Well, not anymore for convicts – the last UK floating prison was HMP Weare, closed in…. guess? 1899? 2005. But good ideas never go out of fashion, and using ships for
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With voting by the party members fully underway, Operation Meat Raffle has gone into its vinegar strokes. Ever juicier bigger bones / bribes / tax-cut porn are being dangled before the faithful. After this campaign is over, it will have done for Gammon and Karen’s relationship what Fifty Shades of Grey had only tentatively begun:
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‘When you want to help people, you tell them the truth…When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.’ Author and economist Thomas Sowell quoted by… Kemi Badenoch, Minister of State for Equalities, in her forward to Inclusive Britain: government response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, March
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Is that it? Is that really it? At the last count there were eleven candidates for Conservative Party leadership. Eleven people who have serious and (mostly) credible ambitions for leading the country, several of whom have achieved positions of power and wealth outside of politics, all of whom (perhaps with the exception of backbencher Rehman
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Why I despise war criminal Boris Johnson The two parameters I set myself for this blog were that I would not descend into bad language, and would not indulge in the sort of polarised click-baity outrage that makes up so much internet content. So the title is a considered one, and one I stand by,
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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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