Tag: Cameron
How Her Majesty’s Royal revolution ran out of road
THE STORY SO FAR: David Cameron, fifth cousin twice removed to the queen by virtue (sic) of an illegitimate birth after a dastardly Royal...
Raising positive voices
My good friend and fellow blogger Keith Hann observed in a Tweet the other day that my last full blog for Voice of the...
Great news! We’re NOT leaving the EU! That Brexit thing was...
GREAT NEWS! Contrary to all you may have read or heard, Britain is NOT leaving the EU.
Brexit was all a bad dream. Like a...
Brexit debate: passing beyond satire
Okay, this is the last blog I shall write before the EU referendum. I cannot wait for next Friday. I dread our voting for a...
No Nazis and no war scares – a polite guide to...
Jean and Peter Watts are a retired professional couple who live in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Before that they lived for some years in rural France. Both,...
Mavericks, nutters, but no true leaders
"Cameron is no Gandhi," wrote Keith Hann yesterday. He’s right! But who is a great leader in our time? So many disappoint. Meanwhile, those...
Is Corbyn your cup of tea? Or is Cameron the cream...
Tastes change. So does political choice. Over a discussion of how coffee 'uslurped' tea in modern Britain, Man On Ledge blogger JULIAN COLE discusses...
Feeling a right lemon
One of my favourite moments in cinema comes early in Richard Curtis’s Four Weddings and a Funeral. The hearty bunch of ex-Oxbridge wedding guests...
Government riven by impossible politicians
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” So says the White Queen to Alice as she makes her way...