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Wednesday, 30 April 2014

The question (from a possibly dangerously liberal useful idiot): So what IS going on in the Ukraine? Just more willy-waving or it is rather less serious? Discuss

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Many years ago, when I was about 35 and my father was 62, he described me as ‘dangerously liberal’. I laughed my socks off. How on earth, I ...
Friday, 25 April 2014

Kissing and making up? Or do Val’s claws go in rather deeper than we thought? Meanwhile, Segolene shows she really is Royal. And we can now all be ethical - all you need is self-regard and a smattering of narcissism

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Quick look at the viewing statistics of this blog and yet again the saga of French President Francois Hollande, his dick and the women in hi...
Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Life, death, football, Moyes, Manchester United, money, tears, second-hand opinion and anything else I can throw into mix. Plus why – why! – all this bloody interest in Francoise Hollande? And a quite fascinating royal tale!

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I had for some time been toying with the idea of a post about Manchester United, their new manager David Moyes and how to all our dismay – t...
Sunday, 6 April 2014

The Price Of Shoddy (cont.) with another rather lengthy preamble. And the latest on Hollande: nothing at all. Then a little bit on diaries v blogging (and if it doesn’t make too much sense, blame the several glasses of wine I have supped writing this entry)

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I promised in my last entry to continue it, and I shall try to outline the link between me, my life attendance at the OS, the ‘middle class’...
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Saturday, 5 April 2014

The Price Of Shoddy (with a rather long preamble on why I never quite got the ‘middle class’ thing, and even then I don’t actually yet get to the point. More, as they say, follows). And then there’s the mystery of Ukrainian interest in one Francois Hollande’s sex life

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I can’t deny that I have been ‘middle class’ all my life, although I can think of some who wish I weren’t and that I would disappear without...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

A daughter’s future gets slowly underway, pub food and English salad, that curious M. Hollande and did Bin Laden have a case? Discuss (or simply kill innocents, whichever comes easiest)

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No self-respecting blogger, or even a blogger like me, can resist posting an up-to-date, state-of-the-art, 24/7, no-holds barred, no stone u...
Monday, 17 March 2014

A plague on all sides in this pointless, futile, utterly daft latest bout of East and West willy waving

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Naturally I worked today – of course I did, they don’t pay me to sit around doing nothing - but I also found a time to read and contribute ...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Farewell Tony Benn: did you know that you had me leading a mob for about 15 minutes? I didn’t like it one little bit.

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So requiem in pace Anthony Wedgwood Benn, aka Tony Benn, everyone’s all-round good guy, pipe smoker, vegetarian, teetotaller and born-again ...
Friday, 14 March 2014

Welcome, Katie, whoever you are. And as I am writing, some advice I wish someone had given me long, long, long before my teeth fell out

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A year or two ago I started parallel blog on Wordpress which was more or less a carbon copy of this. I can’t now remember why, although I’m ...
Saturday, 8 March 2014

What’s cooking - Pt XXCVII: Chicken in white wine and caper sauce, followed by apple tarte Tatin

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Cooking a meal today, yippee. I like cooking, but so rarely get the chance to, mainly, I think, because my wife is jealous of her influence ...
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