Can two wrongs make a wrong? Starmer was wrong to appoint Mandelson in the first place, and Robbins was wrong not to tell him that Mandelson had failed direct vetting. It's what happens when you think you're being clever.
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT: You can now order a pre-publication copy of my new book And The Cello Came Too. Details in comments below.
Thank goodness we don't qualify as 'older relatives' ...
My next book (not a novel) will be paperback only - plus ebook and audio versions of course.
Time to stop doom-scrolling: it is too easy to succumb to despair. Link to my latest thoughts in comments below.
Given Trump’s latest manifestation of ever-worsening psychiatric illness, are we not forced to ask whether there is any depth at all to which he could sink which would lead to him being removed from office on grounds of manifest incapacity?
About 40 years ago, I spent a week on a tanker in the Gulf. My abiding memories: the unbelievable size of the damn thing, and the heat -- out on deck, 50 degrees C. Not nice.
I’m glad you were patient enough to read to the end!
The man who deserves a lot of the blame for the state of the world -- and it's not who you might imagine. Link in comments below.
Back to school for President Trump? I have spelled out for him the difference between cause and effect. Link in comments below.
Hugely over-rated, IMV. Quite fun in parts, but overall, meh ...
NUJ members at the BBC World Service have described continued financial uncertainty as "distressing" and "baffling" and called for an urgent funding agreement and a sustainable, inflation-linked settlement in the next BBC Charter www.nuj.org.uk/resource/sto...
"Oh, the clever men at Oxford/ knows all there is to be knowed/ but nobody knows as half as much as clever old Mr. Toad!"
Thank you! My Dad was very active in the campaign to get the Trent Park museum off the ground so he'd be thrilled to know it's actually happening.
My latest thoughts on Trump's Iran 'excursion'. Link in comments below.
I am truly impressed by the depth and width of your erudition.
i feel a deep sense of shame that I have gone through my entire adult life without knowing that.
Definitions please?
Let’s hope that at least some of them remember what happened in Iraq in 1991.
Back to war: my first thoughts on the renewed US-Israeli assault on Iran in comments below.
Very sad indeed.
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Would that Shakespeare were alive at this hour. (See link in comments.)
