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Oh, Mummy

January 21, 2023 Longrider 8

Oh, the humanity… It might seem impossible to hurt the feelings of a 3,000-year-old corpse. But woke museum chiefs have stopped using the word ‘mummy’ to describe […]

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Bollocks

March 22, 2022 Longrider 26

It’s not ground-breaking at all. It’s brownface. Hit period drama Bridgerton returns for a second series on Friday – with two of its lead characters […]

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Farewell Captain Kirk

June 24, 2020 Longrider 9

Nothing is sacred anymore. This new iteration would be boldly going where no Captain Kirk portrayal has gone before. Last month, CBS announced a brand […]

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Down the Rabbit Hole

January 24, 2020 Longrider 9

Laurence Fox probably overreached himself when he criticised the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in 1917. He has apologised for his mistake. However, he wasn’t […]

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Lozza and the Twat

January 17, 2020 Longrider 7

I normally ignore luvvies when they do politics. However, I am making an exception here. Laurence Fox has waded into the woke culture wars with […]

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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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Sigh…

December 20, 2019 Longrider 9

You may remember this case hitting the headlines. A 16-year-old boy who harassed a same-sex couple on a night bus and stole one of their […]

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Bideford is Racist

November 2, 2019 Longrider 14

Bideford is a small port in north Devon. It was from here that early settlers left for the Americas. As an aside, they disappeared in […]