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Friday, 28 June 2013

Why the widow in Helmand is no different to the widow in Kettering

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When you try to find out how many people have been killed in Afghanistan since the Coalition started its operations there after the attack o...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

(Not for the first time) I earwig. And very little joy with the Prince track, thanks to Warner's no bloody piracy policy. Well! Then there’s more middlebrow ‘original British drama to whinge about and I have a good word to say about Richard, Duke of York, better known as Richard III

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I am currently sitting in a pub after work and eavesdropping on another conversation and I can’t say it makes fascinating listening. What it...
Saturday, 22 June 2013

Finally: I give you Prince and one of his songs which (for me) stands above the rest (and perhaps it's not quite what you might expect)

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There was are recent entry here in which I trailed Prince, but so far never got around to writing it. So here it is. Prince was once one of...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Syria? Leave well alone. If they want a punch-up, stay well clear. And what about those rumours of affairs and sex: Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson, Rebekah Wade, Tony Blair and Wendi Deng?

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The word in these parts is that Cameron is planning to ask Parliament here in Britain to agree to Britain supply the Syrian rebels with mate...
Friday, 14 June 2013

And what do the Men With A Conscience do about Erdogan? Ponder that while we all prepare for World War III and Obama and Cameron opt for equal-opportunity slaughter. And purely in the interests of universal prurience, I pass on a rumour. I stress ‘rumour’ (I know which side my bread is buttered on)

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Given that one of this blog’s many self-imposed tasks it to test to the limit the integrity of all those who think of themselves as Having A...
Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Doom, doom, doom, that’s what I predict, doom, damnation, pestilence, grief, death and more doom. And if I’m wrong this time, who knows? I might be right the next

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There’re really no secret to being a successful prophet of doom: all you have to do is to stick with it for as long as it takes, and sooner ...
Sunday, 2 June 2013

Bowie, buggery, plastic soul, ones-off and the rest - this blog takes a trip down memory lane (not that I, you know...)

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The other night I had an idea for an entry – about David Bowie – and in order to post a few songs on this blog, I prepared several videos (w...
Saturday, 1 June 2013

Just to keep you going (with a special mention to all Broken Hearts. Weep, weep, weep - it won't do you any good at all, but at least you'll enjoy it) To come: David Bowie and Prince

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Not written a thing here for a week or two, and tonight I was engaged in preparing an entry. But it involves recording some songs, and then...
Friday, 24 May 2013

Roll up, roll up and watch the butchered soldier’s family weep uncontrollably. Thrill as they hold back nothing. Enjoy, quite vicariously, having a close family member murdered in cold blood.

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The beheading of a young soldier in Woolwich is appalling, and seems all the more so for happening in open daylight in a suburban street in ...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Well, what do I call it: Alma Mater, Borstal, Personal Prison, Privileged Background (as in Key to Lifelong Success In Life) take your pick, none is appropriate

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Earlier tonight I replied to a correspondent whom I should like to call a friend but can’t really as I have never actually met him. He had e...
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