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What’s special about special needs?

22nd July 2025 Going Postal 2783 Comments

The Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, has promised a statement on Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) in the autumn. The driver is largely money. Local authorities have retained financial responsibility for SEND [more…]

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Why are we living longer

16th June 2025 well_chuffed 2796 Comments

The statistics don’t lie. For some reason we are living much longer than previous generations, but why. Surely it cannot be down to rNHS, they seem to want us all dead as does this rubbish [more…]

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California’s Medi-Cal implosion Explained

29th April 2025 Going Postal 2673 Comments

California’s Democrat socialist democracy, thanks to our one-party supermajority, is a sterling example for our country.  At least its chief architect, Gavin Newsom, hopes so for his 2028 ambitions.  His chief entitlement used to attract [more…]

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Pastoral Letter on Assisted Dying

9th April 2025 Going Postal 2473 Comments

On Sundays, the priest preaches a sermon about half-way through Mass.  Depending on how good a speaker he is, this is an opportunity to pick up some insights on today’s gospel, or alternatively to drift [more…]

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Godspeed Grimy Miner

1st April 2025 Grimy Miner 1845 Comments

The article below was first published in 2017 titled ‘Around the corner’ and is republished today in memory of Grimy Miner, George Kelley. From Grimy Miner’s son. It’s with great sadness that I write to [more…]

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A Life Changing Event

3rd March 2025 Going Postal 2619 Comments

On Tuesday 11th February at 08:10, I had a heart attack. The alarm had gone off at 07:30, downstairs, I made tea for myself and Mrs. 10210, bringing it back upstairs. We sat in bed [more…]

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Anarcho-Tyranny

7th January 2025 Going Postal 3562 Comments

Ed. NB Sent in BE (Before Elon). 10+ years ago, I was totally disinterested in politics, and my get-out clause was “they’re all the same”. The Brexit vote stirred me to get more interested and [more…]

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The New Religion

16th December 2024 Jonathon Davies 2424 Comments

I myself am I Christian, and the more I see of the world today the more convinced I am that for some people science has replaced religion, and in turn become its own religion. You [more…]

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Sort Out Yer Glutes!

2nd December 2024 Going Postal 2321 Comments

Sort out yer glutes! Thus spake my sports physio after I turned up in his surgery with chronic back pain, like I couldn’t get out of bed without screaming. Now he’s good, so good in [more…]

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