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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue… Pride: noun, feeling of satisfaction in oneself due to one’s actions of the actions of those to whom you feel a connection There are things afoot in the world to make one want to …

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience Ever get that sense that you spoke too soon? This time last week I was writing about the surprising fact that there appeared to have been a ceasefire called in the …

It is a tale told by an idiot, all sound and fury signifying nothing Last night, I went to bed wondering if this is what it must have felt like to be alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis, that whisper in the head of “what happens if we wake up …

Through me you enter into the city of woe. I don’t know where to start on all this. As a small child I remember asking my parents why there were such long queues at the petrol station, to be told it was because of the Yom Kippur war in the …

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear Oh dear. What on earth has been going wrong at the BBC? There has clearly been, for some years, a lack of management oversight, and of management cojones to deal …

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won I’m returning to a topic I’ve not touched on for a while, because there hasn’t seemed much to say apart from, how is this still going on? Let me start by going off at a tangent. …

Though those that are betray’d Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe Shout out if you didn’t see that one coming? *tumbleweed* Who knows what the fallout from the falling-out of The President of the United States and his former best-bud, Elon Musk, …

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 …

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 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 …