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5th July 20205th July 2020 Dave GurmanDisplay, Observation

Me & Mick (Mick & Me)

“Fond Memories of Kentish Town” is an interesting example. I started it myself because I had very fond memories of the area I grew up in, but the group I’d originally joined, where I’d enjoyedContinue reading

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15th May 202015th May 2020 Dave GurmanDisplay, Observation, Politics

Humanity or Hypocrisy?

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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15th April 202015th April 2020 Dave GurmanDisplay, Motorcycles

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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31st January 202023rd June 2021 Dave GurmanHonoured Guests, Observation

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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12th December 201924th October 2021 Dave GurmanPolitics

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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12th December 201912th December 2019 Dave GurmanPolitics

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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20th March 201820th March 2018 Dave GurmanDisplay, Politics

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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22nd January 2018 Dave GurmanDisplay, Motorcycles

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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26th September 201726th September 2017 Dave GurmanDisplay, Politics

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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15th June 201715th June 2017 Dave GurmanDisplay, Politics

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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