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Spurious COVID-19 Case Numbers

11th August 2021 Going Postal 3655 Comments

Here’s an unexpected ray of sunshine, much like a mid August day in the UK. The DT reports that Sir Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford vaccine project has said, to an all party Covid [more…]

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You vaccinate me so

4th May 2020 Going Postal 4281 Comments

I’ve been talking to people, way more than I would ever talk to them, people are fine in short bursts, fifteen or twenty minutes is usually enough but in this wonderful, whacky world of lock-down-in-up [more…]

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Septic Eye – China Murders the World Pullout Special (free gift inside)

3rd April 2020 Viciousbutfair 3106 Comments

Readers fresh to GP may not be aware but I produced a stunning series some while ago, exclusively for the discerning readers of this blog (the others, you know who you are, mostly ignored it). [more…]

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Free Speech with Dr Ginsberg

10th March 2020 Viciousbutfair 4193 Comments

I had a rare opportunity to speak to one of the foremost advocates of free speech recently, Dr Ernst Stavro Ginsberg, this was just some of the insight from this conversation. Q I understand that [more…]

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Dear Local MP – At This Special Time

11th December 2019 Viciousbutfair 3936 Comments

Just to explain, I was more incensed than usual, just very recently, at a propaganda sheet pushed through my letterbox. It was from my local MP, I’ve not named the constituency but it is easily [more…]

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Hazy Days

2nd December 2019 Viciousbutfair 3099 Comments

As I get older I seem to have frequent hazy days, foggy days where I’m not sure if this is reality any longer or some surreal, drug induced sleep. Picture yourself in a boat on [more…]

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Home Alone

26th November 2019 Viciousbutfair 3611 Comments

This Christmas Day I shall dine alone, in fact hopefully, I will spend the whole day with the single person that I trust the most in the entire world, myself. No let downs, no drama, [more…]

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I Do Not Want To Spoil The Party

11th November 2019 Viciousbutfair 2302 Comments

Wiki: Overton_window An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibility There have been some impressive and heated election debates here and on other political blogs in the past few days. The merits of strategic [more…]

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So Farewell then John Simon Berkowitz

5th November 2019 Viciousbutfair 2808 Comments

In the foreplay preceding the election of the new Speaker I had a conversation with a friend regarding the significance and power of this position. He was of the opinion that this was a token [more…]

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