If you’ve spent any time on social media recently (and frankly who hasn’t in these locked down days?), you can’t have failed to notice a rash of posts complaining about how cruel people are beingContinue reading
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PhD In Life Anyone?
There’s little doubt that a number of you will have been to University, or that some of you will have gone the distance and are now entitled to stick a few choice letters after yourContinue reading
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A Reflection On Connection
I remember the 1975 referendum to stay in the common market. I was nine years old I didn’t understand what was going on but I remember the sense that something important was happening, something thatContinue reading
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A last minute plea!
On Tuesday I posted some wise words Dan Walsh had written about the Labour manifesto on Facebook and last night I sat up late trying to find something from my own experience that I couldContinue reading
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The Labour manifesto
With an introduction by Dan Walsh This is a terrific manifesto. The naysayers, the sneerers, the tutters, those decrying it as too utopian, too expensive, too extreme, too leftwing, are relying on one crucial thing –Continue reading
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The Kids Are Alright!
“What did you do in the war daddy?” For people of my generation that was a question many of us (in particular the boys) asked of our fathers when we were little. My dad’s answerContinue reading
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Ron’s Story
As he crested the hill and hit the downgrade Ron saw a comparatively clear stretch of motorway ahead of him. He tugged on the throttle of his CB550K and felt it take on a harderContinue reading
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Solidarity Among Sisters
But obviously they only get really solid solidarity if their political perspective happens to coincide with the journalist’s. In yesterday’s Guardian Gabby Hinsliff spoke out in support of fellow fervent anti-Corbynite Laura Kuenssberg. She condemned the “small, self-righteous and aggressively entitledContinue reading
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London’s Burning
This morning, a day after the appalling tragedy in Grenfell Towers, I read a comment on FB written by my friend Chris, a recently retired firefighter who I have know since he was a lad of 17.Continue reading
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