WordPress 5
I have finally updated to WordPress 5. Without doubt, the new editor is the most user unfriendly device imaginable. It is unremittingly awful. As is […]
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A Dictator?
Seriously? Journalist Nick Robinson has likened the behaviour of Boris Johnson to a ‘dictator’ for broadcasting directly to the public on social media. The former BBC political editor, currently […]
No Belle Prize
So, the teenage strop pot didn’t get a peace prize after all. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy […]
When You Are Over the Target
That’s when you get the flak… Boris Johnson described protesters from Extinction Rebellion on Monday night as “uncooperative crusties” occupying “heaving hemp bivouacs” on the streets of […]
On Yer Bike
I have never hitchhiked and never plan to. You never know who will pick you up. Likewise, I do not stop for hitchhikers – the […]
The Debasement of Language
Specifically, death threats. The army and police are investigating after a soldier sent a death threat to the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, defence officials have […]
First Dog on the Moon Claptrap
This cartoon in the Grauniad (where else? Ed) seeks yet again to engage in the usual misandry that disreputable organ is renowned for. Apparently old […]
Chicken Little
Chicken Little has been having her tantrum at the UN Climate Summit. Greta Thunberg has excoriated world leaders for their “betrayal” of young people through […]
Questions in the Guardian
That we can answer. Forty years ago, in the autumn of 1979, I was 20 years old and a new graduate from the Polytechnic of […]
Pointless Virtue Signalling
Justin Welby prostrates himself. The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when hundreds of people […]