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Friday, 29 April 2016

No more EU for now (except, of course, to mention ‘no more EU for now’), but the eternal, infrenal itching now has a name - great! - and I plan my next invasion of Europe. Sorry, wan’t going to mention Europe, was I?

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I have to say that for some odd reason I have held off posting here for several weeks because my main urge was simply to repeat how insuffer...
Friday, 8 April 2016

You want humility? Here’s real humility (well, sort of) and the sad tale of how I came to realised I am not the world’s greatest stock picker

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Every so often I take a look at ‘the stats’ to see which of my previous posts have been read. There are a few evergreen favourites - the tra...
Monday, 4 April 2016

Panama papers leaked: the Guardian fingers Putin (though why just him?). Then there’s another few nights at the St Endellion festival and I wonder why I can’t simply settle for being middle-class. But sadly I can’t

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I must immediately be honest about this entry and state that it has less to do with what I am writing and posting a blog entry and a little ...
Friday, 25 March 2016

Like a bore at a party ‘Brexit’ is the bane of our lives. Roll on June 23 after which we will know whether it’ll be terminal cancer or a debilitating stroke

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It’s fair to say we’ve all met a boring person or, indeed, several. I always recall one in particular, a reporter on the Birmingham Evening ...
Friday, 18 March 2016

Cars, especially first cars, and chips off the old block: I hope my daughter isn’t as stupid as me

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About six or seven years in this blog when it was still a thing of fresh, juvenile enthusiasm and I hadn’t resorted to writing potted resumé...
Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Will the last hack to leave the industry please put out the lights? And Germany’s AfD might be making strides, but I shouldn’t fear the jackboot quite yet

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I watched Spotlight the other night and liked it. So did the Oscars committee and awarded it Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It i...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Ignore this, if you like, just having a general whinge about this sodding itching which has beset me for these past five months

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I’ve got to say very little has been on my mind except looking forward to the day when this perpetual torso itching goes away. Writing it he...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

You want a hero, look elsewhere

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I’ve long suspected that I would never have made hero (the past transitional conjunctive tense or whatever it is is appropriate here because...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

What makes a short break in Rome not the pleasure it should be? Sodding chronic hives. At least Italy might win today’s Six Nations match against Scotland

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Rome I’m here nominally for tomorrow’s Italy v Scotland Six Nations match at the Olympic Stadium, but actually the game, although I am loo...
Friday, 5 February 2016

Should we stay or should we go? Who knows and, to be frank, who cares? The way things are there might in time no longer be an EU to leave

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My apologies to anyone who happens to come across this blog - or even makes a point of visiting it - and who is from South Korea, Australia...
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