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Thursday, 7 November 2024

This post is dedicated to reader John OC and the millions of other MAGA morons who have fallen for Donald J Trump’s bullshit

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Yesterday I posted a dire warning about what Donny Trump’s presidency will mean not just for America but, given the size of of the US econom...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Thanks a bunch, America, you have now fucked up the world for the rest of us: are you guys even sane? Trump? This is not a party trick? Dear soul!

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Although I’m merely an interested Brit addressing Americans, PLEASE be assured that despite what some might think when reading the following...
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Friday, 1 November 2024

Might a new American civil war break out – irrespective of who wins on Novmeber 5, 2024? Guess who's the wild card? What the Orange Jesus himeself, Donald John Trump

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Over the years I have joked about my age, pretending to be over 90 or even over 100. Were someone else to do that, this cynic would suggest ...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

This ‘cradle-Catholic’ sounds off about dreary, dreary ‘good news’

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I’m sitting here in the kitchen at my aunt’s in deepest, darkest Gascony just about to have my second bowel of milky coffee, having risen fr...
Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Shysters anonymous, or how in just over three decades the ‘information superhighway’, the ‘democratising force to end all ‘democratising force’ has succumbed to simply parting you from your money. Greed – as always – regains the throne

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I have been very lax about posting to this blog and intend to try to do so more regularly. There is much I want to comment on, not least the...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Introducing one Murray Sayle, war correspondent and in newspaper terms very much the real deal. Sadly, Sayle was not quite as good as a novelist. Still . . . Then there's when he quit his job on the Sunday Times for telling the truth but the paper taking the easy way out and spiking his story

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One of this world’s many clichés is that ‘everyone has a book in them’, although unhelpfully that observation can be understood in two, rath...
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Monday, 8 January 2024

In case you forgot – he’s still on the loose and roaming free. Last spotted in Iowa and police are warning the public to steer clear. Make sure he goes nowhere near your children and, most important, your wallet.

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Saturday, 6 January 2024

That ‘gathering’ at Congress, Washington, three years ago on January 6: peaceful protest by law-abiding patriots? Or armed riot by thugs and morons? You decide. And beware the back-room and rather bright cynics who know Trump is a moron but could prove to be a very useful moron

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I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. For one thing I am Brit and our own political divide is between the Conservative Party and the La...
Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Why, perhaps, we have rather less to fear from Diaper Don than many so far suggest – he's yesterday's man

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Harold Macmillan described the greatest challenge to a politician as ‘Events, dear boy, events’ and Joseph Chamberlain warned that ‘In polit...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

Roast cygnet, guffawing farmers, a lodge dinner, thwarted evasion and three main courses – my night rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the City of Lincoln (before later retreating downhill to my rented room in a two-up, two-down)

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While ‘researching’ – the posh word for ‘googling’ – all and any info I can get on the Lincolnshire Standard Group (in Britain), I came acro...