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Thursday, 31 December 2015

In which I risk, at best, ostracism, and, at worst, death when I proclaim: The Beatles were great for about four years. After that the went badly off the boil, not least after three of the four of them began believing their own bullshit

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NB At the end of this post are three soundfiles. Just click start to hear any of them. If you are using a Windows machine, they work (on Win...
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Friday, 25 December 2015

A Merry Christmas to you all, but there’s still a dash of vinegar here (I hope)

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As I write, it is mid-afternoon on Christmas Day and I am sitting at my stepmother’s bedside in Bodmin Hospital where she has been transferr...
Saturday, 12 December 2015

Я рад видеть Вас и добро пожаловать. And in newspapers facts are said to be sacred, but not quite as much as sales - use your discretion

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Я рад видеть Вас и добро пожаловать I tend to look at the stats for this blog every morning when I check my email, and a few days ago I not...
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Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Events, dear boy, events, though this time of a personal nature, though thankfully I am wholly unaffected. But perhaps you will do my stepmother a small favour. As for Voltaire and Satan, there’s a certain wisdom there

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Well, I headlined a recent blog post ‘Events, dear boy, events’ which, I’m sure, many will have recalled as the response given by one Harold...
Friday, 4 December 2015

Back in the saddle (and glad for it) and wondering what next is going to go wrong in Syria. Everything or even more than that?

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Well, I’m back in the saddle, more or less, thanks to a daily pill of sertraline hydrochloride, which seems to have done the trick and banis...
Friday, 13 November 2015

Events, dear boy, events. But are some worse than others? Or are they all equally bad?

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I can’t remember what ‘dangers’ the world faced when I was ten because I didn’t follow the news then. The first big issue I remember being a...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Not yet scared shitless? You will be if Mr Edward Lucas has anything to do with it

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It has long been my contention that one tactic newspapers adopt to try to keep up circulation is to scare their readers shitless. It is a co...
Friday, 30 October 2015

I say goodbye to an old friend, one with whom I have seen good times and bad. But I do have a new cap. Well!

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Well, there’s a pretty state! It has been several week now since I put digits to keyboard and blathered on here, but it’s not as though my l...
Friday, 16 October 2015

Depression - what it is not

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I thought I would, for a change, give one of my blog posts a succinct and straightforward title, and one which entirely sums up part of what...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

Labour turns left as it elects as leader The Devil Incarnate/A True Socialist (delete as applicable)

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A quick look at the viewing figures for this blog shows that, for example in the past four weeks, less than one in five lives in Old Bligh...