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Friday, 23 June 2017

How many self-delusional bullshiters populate Mother Earth? Well, I’m hoping there will soon be one fewer

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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am about to dig myself a huge hole, and if I’m not careful I shall fall into it. And if I do, apart from po...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

In which I descend to thoroughly trivial matters, including the farce which British politics has become in a matter of 24 hours

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To be honest, the only reason I am writing this entry is that I was about to revert the ‘Election Special’, photo above for the original ar...
Friday, 9 June 2017

How to look very, very silly in one easy step: call an election and lose your majority when no election was ever necessary. Narcissism helps as does a smug belief in your own infallibility. And the curious case of that nasty ’ol crypto-Communist stinky old Trot Corbyn who isn’t quite as hated by the ‘middle-class’ as some would have you believe

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As I’m sure all reading this entry will know, there are many, many ways of making yourself look very stupid, but of those many ways, some ar...
Wednesday, 7 June 2017

You want an election promise? I’ll give you an election promise: Jam tomorrow!

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Well, it’s election day in Britain tomorrow, and a bloody odd election campaign it has been. We usually have just three weeks of campaigning...
Sunday, 4 June 2017

Conversation is great. Call it communication if you are so inclined, but I just see it as talking to someone else. And if you have lost a parent, cry. And do it now if you have never done it before. As for breaking up with girlfriends (as a guy or a gal) or boyfriends (as a gal or a guy), think carefully

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Nothing much really, except general shite, but after two or three gins - not half as stiff as I used to make and drink them - and sitting ou...
Saturday, 27 May 2017

Last brief post from Israel with a few more pictures…

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Israel – Ben Gurion Airport, Day XVII (or something) I’m on my way back tonight and turned up at the airport a few hours early after being...
Thursday, 25 May 2017

I make it to the Western Wall along with several thousand young Jewish folk celebrating their country’s survival. As for becoming a master at bartering, I’m not even off the starting block, but at least my stepmother gets her crucifix (made of olive wood with just a dash of ‘holy sand’)

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Israel – Day 3: Jerusalem Well, actually that was yesterday, and I am confusing myself. If I arrived at 19.30 on Monday and got to my hote...
Wednesday, 24 May 2017

. . . . and a plate of hummus to end the day. You can't do better than that

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Israel – Day 2: Caesarea Best news of the day is that I got my car after all, which means I don’t quite have to curtail my plans as I thou...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

My trip to Jerusalem (home of the legendary Jesus Christ ©Harry Harris) and other matters. Buses, for example

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Israel – Day 1: Vital Hotel, Tel Aviv The dateline might surprise you, but it shouldn’t. As part of my welcome drive to expand my mind and...
Friday, 19 May 2017

Getting the lowdown on human frailty - why we are all suckers for wanting to teach the world to sing (and making Coca Cola even wealthier). But who cares: it's art

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I’ve often thought that if I were to have my time all over again, I’d have tried for a job in advertising and marketing, or ‘advertising/mar...