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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Dictators v democracy: a (perhaps necessary) clarification. And as things go ever more wrong in Argentina, it begins to fake inflation figures and pick another fight with Old Blighty over the Falklands

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After my entry of a few days ago highlighting Peter Hitchens report from Moscow, it occurred to me that I should, perhaps, clarify my view i...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

A ‘strong man’ or ‘democracy’? Peter Hitchens sticks his neck out (again). And three cheers for a man who refuses to play the game

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Oh, if everything in life were as simple as it was when you were five, supper at 5pm, followed by bath, story and bed. We who are no longer ...
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Thursday, 23 February 2012

Arriving home to misty, drizzly Cornwall and trying to appreciate what I have perhaps forgotten to appreciate

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I first began to visit Cornwall after my father retired, remarried and settled here in St Breward, in a cottage less than a quarter of a mil...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Are they mad or just insane? Surprise as the Greek nation agrees to come quietly - or rather incredulity, Dom Strauss Kahn is revealed as pimping Mr Big (allegedly – I’m not daft) and will the real Angela Merkel please stand up (according to yet another group of conspiracy theorists)

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I’m sorry if I’m behaving like a dog with a bone, but the more I consider the ‘crisis in Greece’ and various ‘solutions’, the more I think t...
Monday, 20 February 2012

I selflessly give another blog (The Slog) a plug and wonder whether in years to come GlaxoSmithKline will be in the hamburger flipping business

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Added April 4, 2014. I notice that this blog post has had several visits over the past few weeks, and I thought it might be best to add th...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t: please lay off the Germans. They really do mean well

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In the beginning there were no greater Euro fans than the Germans, for reasons which have been well-rehearsed. They were also a, if not the,...
Saturday, 11 February 2012

Beware of Greeks bearing gilts, something about socialists, heads and hearts, and I’ve realised why country and western music pisses me off

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There can be no one in the world who thinks that what is now going on in Greece can still all be sorted and that it will eventually all end ...
Saturday, 4 February 2012

I break my 11th commandment and visit a folk club. And given the guest spot, I’m rather glad I did, though I’m otherwise still no convert

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A first for me last night: I went to a folk club evening and didn’t run out within the first ten minutes. You might gather that I am not a f...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Today’s dare: patronise a Scotsman, then run for your life. As for the Union: keep it – better the devil you know. And it’s official: winter can sometimes be a bit chilly and we might even get a bit of snow (but probably only on high ground)

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I am an Englishman who spent four happy years at Dundee University in the late Sixties and early Seventies and who came to like, admire and ...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

Amazing! Or not. And the latest wheeze ‘to save the euro’ is launched to universal derision

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Two weeks ago tomorrow (and try translating that into Italian. I could never get the hang of the future past, or whatever boring grammarians...