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Saturday, 31 December 2011

My New Year message: Smile (you really have no other choice)

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It was only by chance that I came across the three pictures below, but I do feel we should take a hint and see in the New Year with a smile....
Thursday, 29 December 2011

Don’t ignore life’s modest glories: let’s hear it for toast!

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It isn’t often that I can report encouraging developments in my life given that a regular pastime at my age is deciding what hymns I should ...
Monday, 26 December 2011

Irony’s dead? Yeah, right! Actually, do yourself a favour and admit to yourself you’re just another clone

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Well actually, I rather think that irony is very dead. And that is in itself an irony. Because these days everyone seems to take a ‘yeah, ri...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

Who’s going to win: Vlad or the people? Or will it be neither? And don’t bother making plans beyond December 21, 2012 - the Mayans tell us it’s just not worth it

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From where I am now sitting in deepest, most peaceful North Cornwall, Lord knows how the problems in Russia are going to be resolved. Accord...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Things already looking up? Don’t count your chickens. And let’s not go overboard over the death of one Christopher Hitchens

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Here is a short film a made a two and a half years ago when the credit crisis, or as it was referred to at the time ‘the current period of e...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Putin rejects the Blair approach and goes for blood, while Merkel, Sarkozy, Van Rompuy, Barroso and the rest of the EUwits make a special plea to Santa

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A few days ago after reading the news that an estimated 50,000 had turned out in Moscow to protest against the latest election results and t...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Time for a sigh of relief? At least that chap Hollande can keep his dick in his pants. And good news from The Front: we have a solution. (Well, it might work, and if it doesn’t we’re in the clear because it will all be the fault of the rotter Cameron)

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‘Spectacular’ doesn’t even begin to describe the collapse of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s political career. Where once he was considered by some...
Saturday, 10 December 2011

Not so much a riddle as a total bloody enigma. Perhaps we’re trying too hard to understand Russia. I’ll drink to that

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Things are looking a tad bleak for Vladimir Putin if he believes the presidential election next year in which he has said he intends to stan...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

What’s sauce for the goose . . . the Guardian tries its hand at solving an ancient ethical conundrum. And one Vladimir Putin must decide: should he or shouldn’t he? But then he’s such a cutie at heart!

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Well, well. Not only was the Guardian so thoroughly outraged by the News of the World hacking onto the mobile phones of various celebs and p...
Sunday, 4 December 2011

The Times they are a changin’ and have been for quite some time. If you want to make money, leave The Thunderer well alone. Oh, and things could well be looking up for the scruffs on the extreme Left/extreme Right. Now there’s an enticing prospect for another 50 years of peace in Europe

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Years ago, about 24 although it doesn’t feel that long oddly enough, when I was more naive than I am now, I thought that it would be a good ...