Category: Politics

Democratic Deficit

I worked in the City for 39 years and made more than a few pitches to potential clients but this is the most important one I have ever made.

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Boris is Daz

R: “How are you feeling?” Me: “A bit ropey”. We had this exchange over the breakfast table for the last two mornings. I’d had two lunches.

Kick the Can

Much hoo-ha about tax increases to fund the NHS and social care.

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Ukrainian Themes

There was serendipity reading War with Russia yesterday morning whilst listening to Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes by Sergei Lyapunov on BBC Radio 3.

Freedom Day

Yesterday was “Freedom Day” in England. (They do it differently in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland so their administrations can feel free.)

June Gleanings

I find it some consolation that whatever indignities the Catholic Church has suffered in recent years, it retains its pre-eminence in the art of casuistry. (Letter in The Times from Sir Richard Stagg about the Prime Minister’s marriage at Westminster Cathedral) 10th September 2012. The idea of His Blondness with a finger on the nuclear button… Continue reading June Gleanings

Storm Bertie

  An eclectic list of storm names chosen by the UK Met Office, Met Éireann and KNMI (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). So here’s something that hasn’t been effed up by Brexit. 

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Living on the Edge

Proposals to change the boundaries for parliamentary constituencies were made in 2013. They were not acted on.

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