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Monday, 28 November 2011

Hacks on the rack and how, when our glorious Press does, for once, do a decent thing, it is only to protect its own hide

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It would be untrue to claim that at present the United Kingdom is gripped by the ongoing Leveson Inquiry into Press behaviour because the pu...
Saturday, 26 November 2011

Thank the Lord for children. Perhaps they will do better than we did. And I come clean: I might no longer be a cunt, but I was once. Oh, and I plan a racy, though tacky, list of conquests

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Every so often, I simply have an itch to write, and I am not particularly fussed about what to write. The trouble is, of course, that any ol...
Friday, 18 November 2011

Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring, don’t panic. And please, please, please lay off the Germans

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I thought I might start this entry with a cartoon ( UPDATE: picture - couldn't find a useful cartoon) which strikes me as wholly appos...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

Entschuldigen Sie mir bitte, Frau Riedel. Das habe ich nicht so gemeint

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When we lived in Berlin in the early Sixties, my older brother Ian and I had piano lessons with Frau Riedel. I was just 12 and she seemed an...
Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Of mice and men: how Robbie Burns predicted the demise of the EU. Oh, and two silly jokes, just for the craic

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I have never read a poem by Robbie Burns and quoting him here might give the impression that I am quite well-read when all along I have been...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011

A sign that I am, indeed, getting older. Oh, and a perfect cliche finds its sneaky way into this blog

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I assume I was weaned on vinegar because I don’t think there is a sentimental bone in my body and I loathe anything which is twee (which mig...
Friday, 4 November 2011

Oh, what a piece of work are snobs

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One film I am looking forward to seeing is Anonymous. It suggests that Shakespeare did not write the plays which were published under his na...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Greece comes clean: ‘Fuck off’ (it tells the rest of the EU) ‘we don’t want your money.’ (For which, perhaps, read ‘we want easier conditions’) And war in Europe: how one rag reckons it could come about…

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Amid all the hullabaloo of EU summits, eurozone crisis meetings, oh-so-clever ‘leverage’ schemes to turn the four and tuppence nest egg the ...
Thursday, 27 October 2011

Euro crisis: and yet more talk of fairies at the bottom of the garden

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I can’t think of anyone who likes being treated as a moron, yet apparently several of the most important bods in the European Commission see...
Saturday, 22 October 2011

Double standards: an explanation (with an example) for those who are still unfamiliar with the notion. And the MP and the blonde spy. Or is she really just a lass with loose knickers?

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There often seems to be a rather disturbing broken link between what many would like the world to be and what is actually the case. Here is ...