Summer’s here. Well, its sunny this morning, that’ll have to do. All the sport’s finished now. Ok, we have the Olympics coming soon, to a Zika virus near you, (can it be transmitted through the tv??) but they’ve basically removed all sport and replaced it with golf. Great. Usually politics winds down too at this – Read More-
I’d never heard of the Spratly Islands until I saw a BBC news report in which they sent a little plane over the area to film recent developments on these gorgeous little, uninhabited islands in the South China Sea. Suddenly a voice boomed out of the plane’s radio, heavily accented but if there was any – Read More-
The ‘big’ question in Today’s Times relates not to our newly promoted Prime Minister, nor to the Labour party leadership battle which enters litigation mode today, nor even about the official sighting of Andy Murray, post-Wimbledon, actually, publicly, smiling (statistically a rarer event in the natural world than a giant Panda giving birth to identical – Read More-
Be careful what you wish for; goes the saying. And yesterday’s bride wished beyond all else for an ‘outdoor wedding’. Not for her the finery of a West End hotel. She wasn’t interested in Country House splendour, that’s not what vegetarians crave. They crave the wilds of ‘the outside’. And so chose, along with her – Read More-
The next leader of the Conservative Party is to be a woman. Hence the next Prime Minister of all of Great Britain (and its empire?) will be a woman. Though maybe a woman with children is ‘more of a woman’ than one without?? As implied, then denied vigorously, by Andrea Leadsom yesterday. Who then won – Read More-
Barak Obama is a black man. You may not have realised that. And although he’s from Hawaii originally, he lived his adult life in Chicago. Where they view black people as, kind’a, ‘people’. Chicago is a civilised place. Its up north. Where civilisation appears to begin and end in the United States. Minnesota is up – Read More-
Nero played fiddle whilst Rome burned, I played bridge when Wales crashed. Out of the Euros. Tuesday night. Missed the match. Saw the rather depressing goals (has there ever been a better headed goal than that? Everrrr???) but my life was in the realm of 2 Hearts rather than 2-nil. Earlier that very same Tuesday – Read More-
I haven’t finished the Chilcot Report yet. I’ve read 386 words, just 2,672,481 left then I’ll know everything there is to know about the Iraq war and Britain’s part in it. Oh, except what really was going through Tony Blair’s mind at the time which no-one but TB will ever really know. And as its – Read More-
So now we’ve left Europe, we can no longer dress like Europeans. It’ll be law soon so might as well get the jump. Or the jumper. Cos they’ll be back, big time. Sweaters are gone, jumpers are back. We just need to start the process of dissociating ourselves from European stuff. I’ve already got rid – Read More-
You know what its like. You’re driving round the M25, singing away to ‘Islands in the Stream’ or showing Adele how ‘someone like you’ really should be done justice to, and you get to the end of the apple you’re eating. Do you: a. put the core into a specially designed glove-box-composter you had made – Read More-