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Labour of Love

January 13, 2020 Longrider 4

Or hate, whichever takes your fancy. Now that the leadership contest of the Labour party is in full swing, it seems as if nothing is […]

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They Got it Right First Time

January 11, 2020 Longrider 5

Apparently, officials are backtracking on this. Counter-terrorism police placed the non-violent group Extinction Rebellion(XR) on a list of extremist ideologies that should be reported to the […]

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Made Me Smile

January 10, 2020 Longrider 4

As part of my historical research into medieval warfare for my current novel (this is a bit earlier than the period I’m writing about, but […]

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Ouch!

January 9, 2020 Longrider 6

That’s gotta hurt! CNN has settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral […]

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The Enemy Within

January 7, 2020 Longrider 11

Take a look at the image here. It’s doing the rounds on social media. Once you have got over the shock – assuming that you […]

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Veganuary

January 5, 2020 Longrider 18

Having just polished off a nice late breakfast fry-up, you can take it that I’m not doing veganuary. Two days into Veganuary and the head-scratching confusion over […]

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And the Problem Here?

January 2, 2020 Longrider 5

I really don’t see the problem here. Boris Johnson ruled out extending the Brexit transition period past December 2020 as he expressed his confidence a new commercial agreement […]

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Sad Cyprus

January 1, 2020 Longrider 12

So we are supposed to boycott Cyprus now. The mother of a British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has backed […]

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Inappropriate! Disgusting!

January 1, 2020 Longrider 8

Oh, the censorious, humourless snowflake generation and its lack of humour. Comedian Rosie Jones shocked viewers of The Last Leg after making a “disgusting” joke about Greta Thunberg. While appearing […]