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A Bridgen way too far
A rather notable anniversary is coming up this month regarding my massive missives (and more), as the 19th May 2024 marks the one year commemoration of one of my most widely read, broadly shared, and hotly hated epistolary contributions ever... my open letter to "lone hero" Andrew Bridgen. If you are a newer reader, please […]
Play the game, or the game plays you
When, as a person of the female persuasion, you have reached the height of five feet seven inches by the age of 12, you tend not to spend your teens tottering around in heels, as it just makes you too tall (unless you are the prescribed person to get served in the off licence, as […]
Always look a Trojan horse in the mouth
The problem with being a conspiracy theorist these days - well, apart from the societal-wide ridicule, the tyrannical state harassment, and the propensity to run out of tin foil - is that you can't take a single day off without coming back to literal World War Three... I took a day trip to nearby York […]
A Rude Awokening
If you want to know what's really going on in the world - and perhaps more pertinently, what's to come - obviously, the last thing you would do is watch the news. The news is nothing but an unsavoury smorgasbord of propaganda, illusions, and lies (and that's just the weather...). I don't think I've tuned […]
St. Martyr of Middleton and the Colossal Cancer Con
Here's a question I have been pondering increasingly frequently recently: If it's the case that, were we to go to the doctors with a cough, and they informed us, "you have Covid", we wouldn't believe them, why is it we believe them when they tell us we have cancer? As strange synchronous fate would have […]
From WFH to WTF...
I heard a deeply tragic story the other day, from a rather unlikely source: a healthy 25-year-old with a well-paid job, a place to live, and good family and friends. What could be so tragic about those circumstances, you may well ask: someone with their whole life ahead of them, in good health, with enough […]
Things can only get better?
Those of a certain age will no doubt remember D:ream's irritatingly catchy titular ditty that became the official anthem of Tony Blair's 1997 Labour landslide victory (I was still at school at the time, but vividly remember the visceral excitement in the air, even amongst those several years too young to vote - and that […]
Wolves are more dangerous than sheep
From when we are very small, we are tutored in the idea of the "saviour hero" defeating evil and putting everything to rights. Whether it's the handsome Prince saving Cinderella from her evil stepmother, or John McClane in Die Hard saving the world (again), this is part of our cultural story arc from virtually the […]
Who do you think you are?
Well, it seems I have put the conspiratorial cat well and truly amongst the pugnacious pigeons with my comments on hero-superwoman-doctor-god, Rachel Clarke (who was last seen demonstrating her great heroism in these quarters by getting cartoonist Bob Moran, courageous activist father of a disabled daughter, very publicly fired, then threatening to take him to […]
Breathfaking
I don't usually like talking numbers (when you didn't pass your Maths GCSE until the age of 31, you generally don't...), and I realise mentioning salaries is terribly uncouth and un-English (maybe the Russian lessons are having more impact than I thought?), but I've discovered some particularly salient facts - or rather, figures - that […]
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