5 July 2024
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As expected, Labour have won a sweeping victory and the Conservatives got their expected drubbing, although turnout was on the low side (second lowest in the last 100 years, at about 60%). Perhaps that will the the subject of my … Continue reading
3 July 2024
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Tomorrow sees the UK heading to the polls for a long anticipated General Election. The most disappointing result of all would be a low turnout, with people simply not bothering to exercise their democratic duty to get out and vote. … Continue reading
8 June 2024
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I have to wonder if Richie Sunak is really “in it to win it” with the pending UK General Election? From surprising a good number of his Conservative Party colleagues (and announcing it in the pouring rain without even the … Continue reading
4 May 2024
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I see Labour’s Claire Ward has been elected as the first East Midlands mayor. I live in the East Midlands and might well have voted for her but, last Thursday, a Police and Crime Commissioner was the only post I … Continue reading
7 December 2023
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I have had a detailed answer back from the local MP with regard to the question I sent a few days ago comparing the Elgin marbles with MPs (and still no reply from the prospective Labour candidate). However, while I … Continue reading
29 November 2023
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The Prime Minister was due to meet with his counterpart this week but cancelled the meeting at short notice because Kyriakos Mitsotakis had mentioned the question of the “Elgin Marbles”. Apologists have been claiming that Britain obtained them legally. According … Continue reading
14 November 2023
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The appointment of someone who is no longer an MP to be our new foreign secretary sounds to me like trying to scrape beyond the bottom of the barrel. I was surprised that former Prime Minister, David Cameron, wasn’t already … Continue reading
14 March 2023
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You may or may not be interested in his football punditry or his favourite crisps, but Gary Lineker has been in the headlines recently because he posted a tweet suggesting that the rhetoric of the present Conservative government and the … Continue reading
9 February 2023
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The BBC reports that Boris Johnson has made not far off £5m in public speaking gigs since leaving office not much over six months ago. That’s not a bad rate of earning. What makes me astounded is that people are … Continue reading
24 October 2022
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I’m quietly confident when I say that the appointment of Richie Sunak as the UK’s new Prime Minister is in no part down to me. As it happened, there was no need for me to write to my MP asking … Continue reading