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Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
Since I last wrote of Nicola Sturgeon’s Bill to ban speech, more immediate events have seized the attention, but on this bandwagon runs. In ...
Law: an abused word
No man has ever been arrested for attempting to break the First Law of Thermodynamics, nor spent time in clink for breaking Murphy’s Law. ...
Last year was so last year, lads
Tension in the Commons, procedural skirmishes, the Lords ready to pounce, rebellion on the government side of the House, all over Brexit. Yet this ...
Statesmanship, a lost art
In my youth I thought that the statesmen of great nations rose by natural superiority and brilliance of mind. Then I started meeting them and was ...
Have we started to win?
The new, revamped Board of Trade has a star name – Tony Abbott no less, former Prime Minister of Australia. His appointment was widely ...
As several doors open…
It has all kicked off again this week, as if it was not going to be busy enough. The talks with the European Union are meant to be resuming ...
Madnesse
The Passions that most of all cause the differences of Wit, are principally, the more or lesse Desire of Power, of Riches, of Knowledge, and of ...
The patient is dying. There is one cure
The economy has tanked, in a decline far worse than even the most lurid predictions the bank of England put out about Brexit, and which I for one ...