These last 20 years I\’ve felt as if I was an extra/patient on the medical tv show \”House\” – the ones who turn up, with odd symptoms that baffle all the doctors except, ultimately, Gregory House himself. But in my 20 episode version, instead of having a different patient every week with new strange diseases, […]
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The condition of trumpeting loudly your opinions on every topic on Earth, while knowing nothing about any of them.
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One of my proudest boasts is that since 1975 I have never knowingly contributed a cent to Rupert Murdoch\’s wealth.
How anyone with any self-repect can sing the mumbo-jumbo of Xmas Carol nonsense I have never understood.
I have much, very much, to be grateful for in my life. But I am particularly grateful that I never had to earn money by appearing in a fast food/take-away food commercial.
The second part of a two part tv series \”Bloodlands\” is now streaming after a wait of several years. A great cast (led by James Nesbitt and Victoria Smurfitt) and an intricate plot makes this unmissable. But also, I increasingly found, very hard to watch, for reasons it took a while to understand. Ostensibly the setting
The role of good government is to ensure that people have: housing health care jobs a conserved environment culture education care at both ends of life fair elections public transport varied and unbiased media food support of science businesses regulated \’You are mistaken,\’ said he gently, \’that is not good government, that is the best.”
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Has it always been the case that half the human race are as nutty as fruit cakes?
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A suitable song to accompany the cardiac rehabilitation class: \”Stayin\’ Alive\” An unsuitable song to accompany the cardiac rehabilitation class: \”Another one bites the dust\”
Surely some foxes are atheists? From one of my childhood favourites, mentioned in my Memoir \”Hammering on the mind\’s door\”.
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