Especially in the Electoral Commission. They mosey along from week to week, answering the odd phone call, overseeing an occasional by-election.
Then every five years they have an intense burst
Continue reading →Oh to be a Civil Servant now that Spring is here….
Especially in the Electoral Commission. I’m gonna make him an offer …
Any human activity that generates huge amounts of money becomes attractive to criminals. Gambling, retail banking and, of course, any illegal activity involving cash will all attract the eye of nefarious types. And Continue reading → Has it come to this?
An observer – with quick yet antique mind –has said a vast and useless bust of stone
stands in the House. Of a similar kind,
power-drunk, his shattered visage born frown
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The Wolf of Kabul
In my long ago childhood The Wizard had a character called The Wolf of Kabul. Bill Sampson a British Army officer and his trusty sidekick Chung were the scourge of
Continue reading →The Times can’t see the dead wood for the trees.
THE BBC will have to divert licence-fee money into its pension
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No More Tripe!
I swear Mrs Duffy is my Nana re-incarnated. I saw her buried with mine own eyes, but she lives on, slightly diluted.
Nana was a seamstress in Liverpool for the Cunard
Continue reading →What am I?
Nope, this is the 17.5 Kilometre ring fence, topped with 5,000 volt electrified wire and 900 CCTV cameras
Continue reading →The teat reserved exclusively for Glasgow.
That Glasgow is a curiously dependant city existing on the hand outs of industrious citizens way south of the Reiver line is beyond doubt now. The inhabitants have been hand reared in the
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Subrosa on electoral fraud. The Cynical Tendency on the money-go-round. Tami Hoffman on the hand of history. Mr Eugenides Continue reading → Lazy Journalists?
The National Union of Journalists has voted to go on strike across the Johnston Group which encompasses such ‘must reads’ as the Scarborough Evening News, the Hemel Hempstead Gazette,
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