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The deep capture of every aspect of our modern existence by the Marxists, as manifested in the European Union’s blanket interference in what we like to term our private lives has resulted in ownership of all major definitions – equality, diversity and the bourgeois, for example.
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Question: What do you do when you have this cumulative comments thingy and it was set on 18 people, which cut off at about 146 comments and then, two nights ago, you decided to extend it so that it included those around 100 comments and you caught two chaps who had just made it to [...]
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Rossa responds to my statement: “I buy free range eggs but as for the chicken I eat – how can I know if it was cooped up chickens? And if it is – and it’s likely to be – then what can we eat?” And how would you know if it was slaughtered under the [...]
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In lieu of fresh pieces from Dearieme, and in reaction against the direness and banality of modern life, I retreat into Mozart:
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Two gentlemen have made it to the 100 comments eventually – James Wilson and Bill Quango MP. James He has been known under other monikers and so his comments are many times more than 100 but in this manifestation, he has reached the magic figure. An American, James is known for his astute comments, not [...]
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Let me open with one I found at random: My missus is a qualified teacher. Masters degree, experience with primary, secondary and special needs children. In order to stay home with our kids and earn a few quid, she’s retrained as a child-minder. She had to take a L2 NVQ (equivalent to a GCSE) in [...]
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Grit your own roads: DIY salting is all part of the Big Society, says transport minister. Fine, not a problem. We’ll grit our own roads, hire someone to collect the rubbish, pay no income tax, pay no council tax, everything’s sorted. Next …
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1. Upon learning of the death of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, which did Dorothy Parker say: a. Is he really dead? b. How can they tell? c. Who? d. Another one down.
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These days we call them Jobsworths:
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Look, Australia got done, the Aussie press even used the word “thumped” and the swings and roundabouts have come around. Chappell is a Grade A moron, I’m afraid and to take on Botham, at their respective ages, was puerile and also a storm in a teacup. It’s about time England stood up for itself, it [...]
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It really does depend, doesn’t it, on how far we become snowbound in winter? There is little doubt that winter tyres, when there is no snow, are less safe than all-weather and summer tyres and not only that, you wouldn’t want to run them because the studs wear out and the tyre itself wears out [...]
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Due to my history of moving back and forth between England and Australia [family was split between both places although the remainder are here now], I saw the winter of discontent and the Australian coup d’Etat, as well as the Vietnam moratoria [I was quite young then and wasn't really part of it].
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How many actually follow Cantona’s advice and withdraw all their money today will be interesting. Valérie Ohannesian, of the French Banking Federation, said she thought that the appeal was “stupid in every sense” and a charter for thieves and money-launderers.
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Well, what more can be said about Jams O’Donnell which hasn’t been already said? He is a denizen of the night owl town of Romford, of which Wiki said: [The] developed night time economy [is] greater than in any other metropolitan centre in Greater London, with 8,360 square metres (90,000 sq ft) of cinemas, theatres and concert [...]
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Don’t even ask why – just enjoy this briefest of snippets:
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JD waxes lyrical on art: It’s that time of year again. The Turner Prize has been and gone and our lives have been enriched once more by the dazzling display of virtuosity from our young British artists. Or maybe not. Perhaps it should be renamed the Hans Christian Andersen Prize after his tale of the [...]
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Scott Joplin’s Solace. I hope this is the lighter touch you were asking for, Dearieme:
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Just a few shots from around the UK – hover over the pic for the photographer – I didn’t want to embed them because the pic won’t zoom then.
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Having made a pig’s breakfast of the WW1 and WW2 references in the Multiculturalism post, due to weariness and sloppy editing, that led yours truly, this morning, to a re-examination of Wilson and House. The latter was the more interesting character in terms of his influence, if not a more interesting person in himself. Where [...]
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Last year there was this and now the much publicized Grosmont-Pickering steam train pressing on when its electric cousins have given up. Call me reactionary, say I’m going senile and simple but I’d vastly prefer the old technology, the old compartments, the old cars:
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He who laughs last is a bit slow on the uptake.
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With the snow last year and this November, it’s predictable that the global coolists would be out in force, just as the global warmists were in 2006.
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Dearieme will be on Monday, in the light of the passing of Monty Sunshine:
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Assange, it increasingly seems to me, is a hero. As many have pointed out, no shattering revelations have come out, certainly not any which would affect national security – although the PTB use it as a catchall phrase. What the leaks have done is to stir debate in various areas, e.g. the British and Australian [...]
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Why they’re going on about Spain’s strikes as some kind of emergency beats me. Hell, has Spain ever been less than chaotic? Admittedly, it was long ago, in summer, 1989 but I travelled around Spain and fell for the trap of starting by taking a train to Madrid on the TGV. That part was not [...]
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Most know of Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina and before going any further, it would be as well to pronounce her last name properly – you stress the “Pav-” and the rest just follows. Telegraph readers may have seen the story but there’s insult to double injury for the Australians. They lost the bid for [...]
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