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Albert Einstein in Unusual Footwear 24 Jul 2013 | 12:43 pm
There is no reason why these photographs of Albert Einstein should fill me with joy. But they do.
Try to understand my Thatcher. I’ll try to understand yours. 11 Apr 2013 | 03:59 pm
I am most definitely not a child of Thatcher. Perhaps few people can claim that, but, through a strange combination of timing and circumstance, I can. When I first came to the UK in 1990, the bulk of ...
Chronicle of A Death Foreclosed 4 Apr 2013 | 03:56 pm
One year ago today, a seventy-seven year old pharmacist called Dimitris Christoulas took his own life. He shot himself in the head in Syntagma Square in front of the Greek Parliament. He left this not...
Publish and be damned. Or not. 3 Apr 2013 | 03:59 pm
I have read many articles – some of them thoughtful and some of them witty – about why a vile front page like the Daily Mail’s proves that regulation would be useless. I have not yet read a single one...
A Toast to The Laddies 27 Jan 2013 | 07:54 pm
I went to my very first Burns’ Night Supper this weekend. I was asked to do the “Toast to the Laddies”. This is what I wrote. (P.S. Haggis rocks.) Some myths on men, I’ll take apart.The first, in real...
George Osborne Must Abdicate 25 Jan 2013 | 07:01 pm
I have crunched the economic growth figures and have found the following. The UK came out of the deep recession related to the start of the financial crisis here in the third quarter of 2009. Since t...
Tories Eating On The Go 24 Jan 2013 | 06:38 pm
Dear Ms Soubry I said this to you today: Deflating the Big Fat Lie with Big Fat Facts I’d like to add My thanks to @MarkOfTheRennie
Baby-Fever 3 Dec 2012 | 11:20 pm
Over three quarters of a million babies will be born in the UK next year. A small percentage of them will be the lucky progeny of the 10% of us who control over 50% of the wealth in this country. One ...
A short note for George Osborne 10 Oct 2012 | 01:22 pm
Just a little thought to help our Chancellor with a basic concept he seems to find difficult, namely the “curious suggestion” that you borrow more to pay less. There is nothing curious about it. Nor i...
April Jones – A Study in Media Cruelty 5 Oct 2012 | 05:39 pm
I watched agog as a campaign to raise awareness turned into missing girl porn. It was plain when the public response which had been a help to the police, became a huge hindrance. I can identify the mo...
