The Daily Mail has published a leaked story about the Royal Navy’s nuclear missile submarine HMS Valiant. The Mail talks of it as a “party boat”, with cocaine use and illicit sex. One can imagine the gleeful enthusiasm with which the Daily Mail developed this story: nuclear warheads, rampant sex, drugs, irate wives, the Senior […]
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Trump’s victory polarised everybody. But if Trump fails, even the delight of his most diehard critics will regress to a worse upset. Trumpist delight is little reported in mainstream media. Instead we see rallies of the enraged claiming Trump discriminates against them. But there’s little of the usual political apathy. I hope that, dodgy hairstyles apart, we’re seeing a
Is marching Chelsea Pensioners into Police stations to question them for what they did on the streets of Northern Ireland going to give genuine peace to this much troubled place? Many families still grieve, and the old sectarian divisions continue. But few desire to return to the dark days of bombs, snipers and knee-capping. But there remains a
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Today’s US reactions to Russia’s alleged hacker support for the Republican election campaign show us how NOT to counter a cyber attack campaign. Don’t reveal you know you’ve been attacked. Don’t tell anybody that you know how it was done. Don’t identify the organisations involved, especially if they’re operating on your own soil. Don’t tell
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Why don’t the people of Northern Ireland protest against these attempts to prosecute British Army pensioners? Apart from the injustice, it risks destabilising a fragile peace? So here’s why they should: We’re told the Republican community in Northern Ireland require justice for what they believe to have been crimes committed by British soldiers. These prosecutions
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Oxford England – as some Americans would say, is one of the world’s bicycle cities. With the exception of Headington Hill, it’s flat, and being a medieval city, a push bike is the best way to get into the city and around it. Plus it’s so medieval that the City Council do everything they can
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The reality of UK parliamentary democracy is that the views of millions of actual vote are lost in the ballot box. They make no difference to the outcome. SO now that I’ve just voted – my civic duty is done. But to what end? Had I voted for the sitting candidate who is certain to
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Green issues are far too important to be politicised. A conversation yesterday with a local Green Party canvassing person made me realise that the UK’s Green Party has become too concerned with politics to be effective as a pressure group. The background to this was after one of my musical friends – in a FaceBook discussion –
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Do civil servants calculate the cost of looking after veterans when they give their “estimates” of the costs of doing things? The official line is that British veterans are looked after by the NHS. Right – so the NHS should develop specialist burns and multiple amputee wards all over the country, and nationwide chain of
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Do you remember back to when you wanted to ride a motorcycle, but your parents wouldn’t let you because they thought it was too dangerous? You watched every passing motorcycle with envy, imagining how it might be to be so free and cool. The more your parents said “No”, the more you wanted it. But
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