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Positive men are, indeed, the most credulous I have spent every day for the last week doing something I haven’t done for some years. 15 years if I’m being precise. Namely, staring at a little white stick, waiting for lines to appear. The taking of the Lateral Flow Test has …

The Greenshirts of the Boiler Police are not going to kick in your door with their sandal-clad feet and seize, at carrot-point, your trusty old combi. What are the two best ways of ensuring the general UK public does something you want it to? 1. Make it mandatory for them …

I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand. years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars I don’t want to jinx anything, but a few …

Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. How to kill an important political message stone dead. 1. Irritate the hell out of Middle England, 2. Be revealed as a hypocrite by the popular press. 3. Let everyone know what sort of person you are by claiming …

We’re getting to that time of year – summer (or what little we saw of it) is behind us and, as winter approaches, your DIYers will start thinking about those RMI tasks before the arrival of harsher weather. So what advice can merchants be offering to customers to support this? …

Well I’m standing by a river But the water doesn’t flow It boils with every poison you can think of The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Except, at the moment you can’t see what the road is paved with because of all the cars queuing to squeeze …

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, I had a whole blog planned for yesterday morning about energy prices, shortages and Insulate Britain, with their highly reasonable conviction that one of the best ways of tackling our climate change problem is to properly insulate our houses and buildings. …

People, People who need people, Are the luckiest people in the world Last Wednesday and Thursday, 517 days, or 12,408 hours, after the last one was supposed to have opened, buying society NMBS finally got the Exhibition it had been waiting for. And, to be honest, it wasn’t just NMBS …

The biggest tax rises for several generations, certainly since the beginning of the 1950s were announced in Parliament yesterday, and are being debated today. Why? To try and plug the hole in the funding for both the NHS and the UK’s social care bill. Unfortunately, it has to be done. …

my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; Sometimes something happens that knocks you so completely off your axis that it puts every other little thing in your life into perspective. When bad things happen …