Question Time 14th May 2020 Panel: Stephen Barclay (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Mick Cash (Trades Union Leader) Luke Johnson (Venture Capitalist) Devi Sridhar (Accademic) Venue: Oxford Author of the Hippocratic oath and conqueror of smallpox, [more…]
Is there an irrational fear of the southern hemisphere? Austrophobia? If so, may I suggest that those who suffer from it (Equatrophobics?) might try Singapore? One degree of latitude north, 70 miles from the equator, [more…]
Question Time 7th May 2020 Panel: George Eustace (Conservative) Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Afua Hirsh (Journalist) Juergen Maier (Businessman) Chris Hopson (NHS Providers) Venue: Newcastle upon Tyne Surgeon to the Royal Household and discoverer of the [more…]
Friends tell me that I’m a ‘Master Raconteur.’ At least, I think that’s what they’re telling me. Perhaps it’s an anagram? No matter, I must recount the following. Every tall tale should have its own [more…]
Miss Ng was a council house kid of sorts. Her family rented from Mr Lee’s Housing and Development Board. A truly Utopian organisation, it leased affordable property in projects that contained any and all of [more…]
Question Time 30th April 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Jeane Freeman (Scotish National Party) Sir Paul Nurse (Medical Expert) George Osborne (Journalist) Venue: Leeds Surgeon General, and inventor of the syringe, Nobel [more…]
I began to obsess about Mr Reginald Stein on the evening that a party guest, a Mr Hong Gildong, tried to read Mr Stein’s Turkish rug. My wife thought him ill. Our student maid, Rose, [more…]
They say that as soon as you’ve finished writing your story then you’ve reached the point when you have to write it. They are correct. Words, like muscles, need flexed and re-used over and over [more…]
Question Time 16th April 2020 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Rachel Clarke (Medical Expert) Lord Bilimoria (Businessman) Venue: Wolverhampton Your humble reviewer has many happy memories of Wolverhampton. Despite having time on his [more…]
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