My first passport stated that I am a subject. My current one states in small print near the back that I am a citizen. I am not a citizen. I…
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When I started out, like so many others I guess, I sorted of gradually internalised what my parents told me was right and what they told me was wrong. Dead…
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Boris Johnson pictured with 14%-17% of his current offspring (at time of writing) with the latest 15%-25% of his life partners. This relates to a total ‘R’ transmission rate of…
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Why, it is attending meetings of course. Is there anything more important than a lengthy debate about a comrade’s possible transgression of the Rule Book? It is also a lifelong…
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Today is the anniversary of the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. The year was 1789. Something else happened a few days later in France. As we go through turbulent times does…
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By Andrew Hunt What month is it…ahh yes April the 30th weather slightly damp.We are a father again. Well I’m bloody chuffed with thingy, being in labour for 3 days…
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Might we declare a moratorium on the phrase ‘Back to Normal’?Is your ‘normal’ remotely like that of (Sir, for the moment) Richard Branson? Or David Cameron? Or Tony Blair? Perhaps…
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My boyfriend has left me to go and stay with friends in the country. He says he has been ill and is self-isolating but I am worried he is two…
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Our prime minister failed to chair not one but five emergency meetings, known as COBRA. The letters sort of stand for Cabinet Office Meeting Rooms In fact they are cross…
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Many people think of 1929 as the start of The Great Depression. Britain, as you would expect, was years ahead of those laggards on Wall Street. In 1925 our Chancellor…