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Confessions of a Language Lover

28th July 2021 Going Postal 3019 Comments

“Grammar Nazi”: the words spit out at me from the screen.  Because the paucity of the allusion profoundly depresses me, I have decided to spare the complainants personal embarrassment by no longer highlighting their individual [more…]

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GDP Tells Us Little about the Health of an Economy

28th July 2021 Patrick Barron 2132 Comments

The government’s and the mainstream media’s favorite economic statistic is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If GDP goes up, then the economy is doing well. If GDP shrinks, then the economy is doing poorly, or so [more…]

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Growing, Foraging, Eating In A Pandemic; Mask Wars 2

27th July 2021 Colin Cross 2886 Comments

Mask Wars Part Deux Like many other people (no doubt) I looked forward, with mounting anticipation, to walking up to the bar in my local, being greeted by a smiling serving wench and taking my [more…]

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Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part One

27th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2399 Comments

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hills. The equator runs across these highlands a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six [more…]

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Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2284 Comments

Most problems that blight the lives of ordinary folk are caused by politicians. In a democracy one might suggest this is counter intuitive, but democracy has mutated since its  Athenian concept so drastically it has [more…]

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Euro 2020 Penalty Shoot Out Bloodbath

26th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2825 Comments

GP’s Bloodbath investigative team, having returned from a bad-tempered Batley and Spen by-election battleground ballot box bust-up, thought they could take a relaxing break in front of the England v Italy Euro 2020 final. How [more…]

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Basic Economics

26th July 2021 Emile Woolf 2504 Comments

The great debate now obsessing Treasury bosses and central bankers is whether all those trillions they continue to print so obsessively are at last producing a perceptible bout of hyperinflation. Before trying to make sense [more…]

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Frankenstein’s Party

26th July 2021 Going Postal 2214 Comments

T’was 2019, mid July The whole nation was a’ high With anger and rage For their failed paige Do it all May! Just go away! Could not please every geezer, The treacherous Theresa But big [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 29

25th July 2021 Blown Periphery 3103 Comments

Part 3 – Redemption These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Jesus looked at him for [more…]

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