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Send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee On the face of it it’s not looking like a good time to be a housebuilder…more specifically, a shareholder in a national housebuilding business that begins with a B. I’m old enough to remember the Barrett TV …

A traffic jam when you’re already late A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife Oh, the irony. A few days before the final report from the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is due to be published, another …

Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. It’s that time of of year again, when the thoughts of sandy beaches/soggy campsites/crowded airport lounges/cocktails for breakfast, turn lightly to the post-bank holiday, upcoming Autumn. …

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. The phrase doing the rounds at the end of last year was “Survive ‘till ‘25” – loads of companies just thinking that, if they can hang on in there through the difficulties of …

They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs And too many right wing meetings In the last week we have seen the best of people and the worst of people. It’s been an age of endeavour, resilience and triumph, and an age of horror, violence and bigotry. The terrible events of …

It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair And so it begins. The ‘Project Fear’ that Rishi Sunak’s election campaign majored on, the huge amount of tax increases that an incoming Labour Government would …

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age  Goodness, where do I start? I woke up on Friday morning with half the working world staring at a blue-screen-of-death, thanks to a huge computer outage. I went to bed last night with the news that the President of the …

The first flushes of love are so spurred and intoxicating That the lovers’ worlds move at a quicker pace The aftermath of a general election is a bit like the start of a love affair – go with me on this one. You begin, all starry-eyed and flush-faced, your heart …

And the government by the people, for the people, of the people shall not perish from this earth So it came to pass that the blue hue the UK political landscape turned in 2019 was diluted last night with shades of yellow, green, that wishy-washy pale Reform blue, and red. …

We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate I don’t really want to come across as one of those moaning, rent-a-comment, talking head politicians that the news channels are churning out for our amusement in the run up to the election, but, …