Month: October 2022

How do you tell an old and valued friend you think they might be wrong? First step, figure out if it’s worth […]

This is going to be a bit irritating. I’m going to break a rule. I know what irritates you, such is the barometer […]

In school, you are given a lesson and then a test. In life, you are given a test, that teaches you a […]

Jeremy Hunt is no stranger to Whitehall’s hard-tack and water. As the longest-serving secretary of state for health, most of it during […]

I’m suspicious.  It’s not that I have a slight mistrust of people who want to change things. It’s because I have a total, […]

In the avalanche of daily news there was an important snippet that might have passed you by. It wasn’t camouflaged and it […]

The sad, anorak that I am, I watched No21 (Thérèse Coffey), in Birmingham, making her speech to the Tory Party Conference. Birmingham; […]

The Conservative party continues to demonstrate, how not to manage a party in a brewery… or, for that matter, Birmingham. Setting aside […]

How’s yer Gaelic French? Not your first language? Never mind… leave it to me. There’s an old Gaelic French, military term meaning; a […]