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Common sense is not so common I know they say ‘if you’re the traffic, you shouldn’t blame the traffic’, and I get the sentiment behind that. Still, allow me to have a rant about something that impacts all of us just trying to get through a day’s work. Infrastructure work. …

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. There is so much out there that’s a bit grim and depressing, even though we are in Spring, the season of rebirth and new growth. The Trump tariffs are tanking the …

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes No matter how haggard and cynical I get, I am still one of those people who gets a tiny bit excited when I spot people I’ve seen on the telly in the flesh so to speak …

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! The Trumpian horror show that’s going on across the Pond, and its equally horrific economic consequences for the rest of the world are just the very nasty-tasting cherry on top of …

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it …the louder the noise they make as they stumble. As headline figures go, it’s pretty grim. Travis Perkins, the behemoth that for years has bestrode the UK merchanting sector like a, well, a …

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Oops. Although, as cock-ups go, the adding of a journalist to a secret US Government chat-group is about as far from ‘oops’ as I am from being elected President of France (maybe I’m just not in the right WhatsApp groups). There …

Once more upon the waters, yet once more! It’s been a while since I last dived into this topic (sorry), but I thought it was about time to revisit the wretched question: how the heck do we sort out the mess our water sector has found itself in? I’m not …

Most of the houses of the Midland town were of a pleasant architecture. They lacked style, but also lacked pretentiousness Apparently we are in for the ‘biggest building boom in a generation’. Really? Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner talks a good talk on this, but the Planning & Regeneration Bill …

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? Smile, they said. Because things could always get worse. So I smiled. And lo and behold, things got worse. There are …

A man is known by the company he keeps Judge a man, not by what he says, but by what he does, by how he treats others. When Trump was named the Republican party candidate for the US Presidency, when it became clear that Joe Biden wasn’t a shoo-in for …