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Sunday, 5 January 2025

Think 2024 was bad? Breaking news: 2025 could get a lot worse if Lady Luck doesn’t smile on the world. And from what I hear Lady Luck has taken the decade off

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There was a comment by someone or other in one of the Times Radio interviews (many of which are available on Youtube) which, for me, sums u...
Saturday, 28 December 2024

Well, well, well – a genius writes! Shame that it took until 2135 for the fucking world to catch on (by which time he was long dead)! And it’s not as though I didn’t do my fucking best to alert them! Fuckwits! What CAN you do!

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In the previous post I suggested that, broadly, those who insist they ‘write only for themselves’ are talking bollocks. However, despite my ...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Face it, America, you have finally fucked yourself

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I am baffled. Although I am ‘merely’ a Brit and some might feel I am not at all qualified to criticise America, I’m going to do so anyway. B...
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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