Adieu!
'Operation Stack'. It's a term anyone who listens to traffic reports on national radio stations will have been familiar with for years. It's a logistics exercise, which involves parking lorries [...]
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12, 2020
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12, 2020
That’s Another Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into, Stanley
For Elton John, 'sorry' seemed to be the hardest word. For those in the elected ranks of Sinn Fein, it's one of the easiest. The pattern of behaviour from these [...]
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11, 2020
Biden Our Time
Last week, the media in Britain were ready to anoint Joe Biden as the second coming. The BBC's Jon Sopel had just recovered from his priapic frisson; Beth Rigby had [...]
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11, 2020
The Boris Concerto
One of the most critically acclaimed cartoon shorts of all-time is a 1947 Tom and Jerry masterpiece called 'The Cat Concerto'. It went on to subsequently win an Oscar at [...]
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10, 2020
When Saturday Came
For Richard (my best mate) and I to spend that blazing hot Saturday afternoon in the November of 2007 kicking a football around with some of the slum kids in [...]
17
10, 2020
Decapitating Liberty
The angriest I ever remember my Mum over something connected with school was in the spring of 1981. Our Headmaster at primary school in Wimbledon, Mr Hawkins, had asked us [...]
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10, 2020
Let the Curtain Fall
Excellent news. Those who constantly highlight the events of Bloody Sunday for their own ends never take into context what being a soldier meant in the Londonderry of the early [...]
22
09, 2020
The Darling Fuds of May!
They say that if you watch a person's body at the moment of death, their hands give a little twitch as the last vestiges of mortality are snuffed out. I [...]
9
09, 2020
Your Move, Brussels!
Germans have a word for it: 'Schadenfreude'. It means to take a personal delight in other people's misfortunes. Oh how I've done that these past 36 hours. To see the [...]
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09, 2020
BBC Unfit For Purpose
On the morning the outcome of the Brexit referendum went beyond doubt, David Dimbleby's face said it all. He looked as if someone had just told him the missus left [...]