We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us Stop me if you have heard this before. We have a Prime Minister who, two years in to his Parliamentary term, is more unpopular than his …
Read More »Politically blind? Or stupid?
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, What was he thinking? Was he badly advised? Where were the PR people who could tell him what the optics would look like? Did he ignore them? Think he knew better? Or just thought he could blag his way through it all? News …
Read More »Here comes the rain again
the rain came plunging through the leaves as if every drop were a great leaden bead. We’ve known for ages that there would be a General Election this year. There has to be, as the five years since Boris Johnson’s triumphant ‘Get Brexit Done’ demolishing of the red wall, is …
Read More »The circus is coming to town…
Money talks, but it don’t sing and dance, and it don’t walk, We are due to have a UK general election sometime in the next 12 months. We know that, it’s the rule that we can’t go for longer than five years without the Westminster circus coming to town again. …
Read More »Return of the prodigal?
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Hands up, who saw that one coming? No, me neither. The benefit of listening to the radio on digital technology meant that I could rewind the news, and check that the BBC reporter really had just said, …
Read More »Five uncomfortable looking stools
It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I tried. Truly, honestly, I tried to stick with it. But it was just so irritating and predictable. I ended up switching over to Italy v Brazil. At least that meant I was watching …
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