“If Paradise is half as nice” as Amen Corner, one of those forgotten bits of Wren designed gentile London, whence Giles Fraser was once privileged to lay his effortlessly right-on liberal multi-cultural espousing head, then he may
Continue reading →St. Giles knocks ‘em Red in the Aisles.
Lie, Lie, and Lie again, you know it makes sense.
Long, long ago, I thought the newspapers brought you the news. I know, I know, I used to believe in the tooth fairy too.
Then I learnt that they only ‘brought you the news’ that
Continue reading →UKIP and the Little Englanders.
Ian Duncan-Smith lit the blue touch paper under the Internet savvy UKIP members late last night, by midnight they were howling at the moon – 900 vitriolic comments under an article that didn’t appear
Continue reading →Two-Tier Tears.
‘Two-tier’. ‘Post-code lottery’. ‘Deserving Poor’. It seems the media will never run out of nomenclatures for invoking the spirit of ‘someone, somewhere, is getting more than you’. Society no longer appears capable of debating anything without identifying
Continue reading →Operation It Could be YewTree
What’s in a Name?
Quite a lot, if it’s your good name that we’re talking about.
Not so much, I suspect, if it’s the name of someone you’ve never met, and are never likely to meet; some wealthy git,
Continue reading →How to cook a man â a recipe for contentment
My special friend Gildas the Monk has been feeling a bit down lately. So here is a special recipe which revives him when the cares and woes of the world seem to be getting on top
Continue reading →Sticks and Carrots.
Near 20 years ago, Jesper Juul, a Danish psychologist, wrote a book which electrified the world of social workers, teachers, and child advocates. It was called ‘Your Competent Child‘ – half a million copies
Continue reading →Overlords
Some time ago I wrote a little piece about the battered, somewhat feral cat that turned up in the back garden.
The Cat with No Name was a battered, worn out
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