Nasty old people who voted out. How many times has this been said over the weekend? Ageism at its best. ‘They’ve ruined my future.’ Um. I’m in my fifties. I could have ten, twenty, thirty years to live. Don’t I have a future too? More to the point, I remember the days before the EU. […]Read Post ›
And there we have it. The sheep didn’t follow blindly after all. Stephen Crabb, the work and pensions secretary, (what work, what pension?) has said the government failed to get its message across to the white working class. And I think that is one of the themes that is emerging this evening is that old […]Read Post ›
What’s not to love about conspiracies? And conspiracy theories? And It couldn’t happen here? Lying, controlling governments? When I got the chance to read a story about an investigative blogger, would-be journalist, trying to expose an organisation imposing a draconian regime for public safety, how could I resist? The CleanSweep Conspiracy, by Chuck Waldron, is […]Read Post ›
Package holidays eluded me for the first three decades of my life. And when I did dip a toe into the delights of cattle herding on cheap flights and apartments at Mediterranean resorts, it lasted all of three one-week holidays. My idea of holidays was picking up a rucksack and travelling around, either using public […]Read Post ›
I’ll be honest. I could not provide a reasonable beta read for free. There is no incentive to ploughing through something, analysing it, and compiling a coherent report, for nothing. To some authors, paid for beta reads are anathema. No one should have to pay for a beta read goes the thinking. But if you […]Read Post ›
‘You’ve got an allergy to the garden,’ he pronounced. I wasn’t impressed. ‘What, after 14 years?’ ‘Yes. Allergies come on suddenly, especially in old age.’ I had done some gardening on our first day. I was threatened with the evil hedge-cutting machine if I didn’t prune the plumbago round the gate which I did in […]Read Post ›
Forty-one years ago my partner cast his first vote. As with many people his age, it was in the UK’s first referendum about the Common Market. The forerunner of the EU for anyone not so old or well up on European politics. Last year, the new UK government (Tory) announced a referendum about remaining in […]Read Post ›
