Goings on at the Conservative party Conference, brought on this Rant. Sorry!
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5 things I’ve learned in Lockdown. No, a new language isn’t one of them
Epiphanic Lockdown Revelations: we’re all idiots, we’re all amazing and… no, we’re all still just idiots
Have you gained superior wisdomfrom this virus experience, even though it’s not quite over and everyone’s utterly confused right now? Why the confusion? What tabloid have you been on? Read on…
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Let’s come together and not fall apart, as we face a hopeful new decade
When I was growing up in Islington in the 1970s, my brown skin steadily thickening in response to regular racist abuse of some kind or another, I was always inwardly overly ecstatic whenever I had the rather rare opportunity to interact with another brown person (who was not a relative or family friend). ‘Brother from another mother!’ my inner voice would cry out in barely restrained rejoice.
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10 Automotive Brexit Facts
What will a ‘no deal’ Brexit really mean for the car industry
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has separated the myths from the facts. Here’s what it had to say.
Looking back at 2017
The good (mostly cars), the bad (mostly Trump), the future (mostly hope!)
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The Future’s not what it turned out to be
Whilst we wait for big babies to blow up the world and the Earth’s crust to eat itself, maybe we should wrench ourselves away from our Facebook feeds for one last go at fixing things.
I’m pissed off at the future! Not the future that is to come, but the future that was to be. The one we’ve actually ended up with today.
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British Elections June 2017
Great to see haughty arrogance and complacency fall flat on its face.
Awesome to see hope and optimism galvanise voting, particularly among the young. No more need for grudging acceptance and stoic cynicism – things can change!
BTW Labour got 40% of the votes. In the previous election in 2015 it achieved only 30%. You have to go back to 2001 for the last time it got 40% which was when Blair won his second term! In fact Blair won his third term with only 35%. So that puts into perspective Corbyn’s achievement. Credit where credit is due.
Welcome Ramadan 2017 – be gentle, be loving, be peaceful
I wish you all the blessings of this holiest of months, whether you fast or not. Here’s why, despite media perceptions, this should be a month of peace and love.
For those of us fasting – here we go again.
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Stunned and Stifled Incredulity
Whilst watching the BBC just now, this penned itself.
A buffoon-in-chief speaks – or should that be reads badly – on matters he simply can’t begin to comprehend. The insincerity stabs at you with every jab of the tiny paw.
Write him off if you must, but don’t ignore him
How is it we live in a world where all the political pundits tell us that a man who speaks of a just, fair, peaceful and hopeful future for us and our young has no chance of winning an election, whilst an out-of-touch, flighty, egomaniac focussed solely on strengthening her own power base (like her counterpart across the Atlantic) – to the obvious detriment of what we used to understand democracy to be – is a sure bet?
An old video sure, but please listen to this speech and then ponder that this is not a man that talks about conceited and contrived ‘strong and stable’ politics.
He talks about…
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