The Sun has got its hat on,
and its coming out for Dave.……
That little ditty prompted one of my commentators to
Continue reading →The Sun has got its hat on,
and its coming out for Dave.……
That little ditty prompted one of my commentators to
Continue reading →It’s Party Conference time again and the politicians and policy makers are sound-biting and persuading, flag-waving and chest-beating, egotistically eulogising and I’m afraid I just cannot take it seriously.
Continue reading →Try to imagine a Labour Government Minister waxing lyrical about an attempt to instill extreme discipline in a group of young Hoodie’s in deepest Hackney by induction into the art of square bashing – or
Continue reading →Orestes pursued by the Furies by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
In the Eumenides there is a passage redolent of the current trend for avenging ‘wrongs’ that are perceived not to
Continue reading →90th minute plus …BBC has exposed the long accepted bromide that defence wins championships. With Scotland’s defence hobbled by a long play from Clifford, the Attorney-General weathered Tonga’s early onslaught and fought back with style. Dominant midfielder play
Continue reading →Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary with an interest in innovative computer technology, has, in the blink of a scaly binary eyelid, moved to the right of the decimal point – from protecting the
Continue reading →Lord Drayson is one of the few ungulates who hasn’t proved to be more of an ungrate and gone a-leaping off to a life time’s sinecure on the back benches of the House of Lord’s
Continue reading →We are such generous creatures, we tax-payers.
Struggling with our mountain of debt, staring bankruptcy in the face, we dug deep into our pockets and stumped up £60,000 to send five MPs and two Peers on
Continue reading →I cannot say that I venture often into the New Statesman. James Macintyre is enough to put me off.
The headline ‘Tory Fiction, media fact’ lured me into these unexplored pastures;
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‘And it’s too late Benny, it’s too late, though you really did try to fake it ’
The recession’s over, right? The world economy will return to growth,
Continue reading →How fitting that the end of the much vaunted ‘special relationship’ should come about in the kitchens of the UN building.
The BBC headlines over the past
Continue reading →Now hear this! I am immortal! You are stuck with me for ever and ever! No matter how old, wrinkled and ’sufficiently decrepit’ I become, I will not die, my arthritic old
Continue reading →One might think that a Keep Britain Tidy poster campaign designed to grab the attention of litter-louts throughout the land would be welcomed by Home County matrons and City high-fliers
Continue reading →Baroness Scotland, grinning happily.
The main stream media have encircled arms and are forming a long salivating line winding its way through Tongan cleaner Loloahi Tapui’s personal life, as
Continue reading →No, no, no! Not this plateful of NHS nutrition – which took several pages of comments before it was correctly identified as Mushroom Stroganoff – and then only by the poor unfortunate who was condemned
Continue reading →A brilliant deduction from a Cornish hospital – they have discovered that patients fed on high quality food recover faster. Would you ever?
The radical innovation will
Continue reading →Derek Simpson’s inopportune squawking last week to the Daily Mirror that Labour under Gordon Brown resembled the deceased Monty Python parrot was hastily resuscitated by Unite’s spin artistes to read ‘Unite’s joint general
Continue reading →We’ve not seen an ounce of humility from them […] These people feathered their own nests and filled their own pockets full of a lot of cash during the course of their time […] Given all that has
Continue reading →The ever more ridiculous Daily Mail is at it again this morning. I should stop reading it, but as a means to raise my testosterone levels and brace myself to engage in
Continue reading →http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-current-thinking-abou_b_275753.html
This is what we’re buying into if we, as is currently mooted, ditch the NHS in favour of the US way of life and health. Hey! Snake oil! Let’s go
Continue reading →The main stream media are quick to point out to anybody who is prepared to listen that they have superior fact checking facilities and professional
Continue reading →The indigestion suffered after Lord Mandelson has been dinning and whining (sic) with the rich and famous is widespread, and not confined to just those round the table.
The latest bout has enveloped
Continue reading →There is an element of coming-of-age about getting your first penknife; a mastery of your
Continue reading →A fascinating interview today in The Independent with Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), and a powerful vote, incidentally, in
Continue reading →H/t to Iain Dale this morning, for pointing me in the direction of Dennis Sewell’s excellent article. I confess I had given up reading the Spectator, but shall return
Continue reading →You might think that allegiance to the Queen, the Church of England, and pride in a British passport would all be on the list of ‘definitions of Britishness’, no particularly reason why they should be
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