Recent Blogs.- WE'RE NO LONGER GOLDEN October 26, 2020Last week I spotted a piece in the Washington Post, a worldwide poll which indicated a growing disenchantment with democracy as an effective form of government. The negative response was more pronounced amongst millennials than any other age cohort. There was also a rising preference for strong leadership instead of elections. It was slight in […]
- HOW ARE YOU - REALLY? October 19, 2020I’ve often been asked this as though my cheerfulness masks some fatal illness or means I’m in denial. It’s clearly absurd to be anything other than doleful, depressed and despairing in a world ruled by a tiny virus that’s killed over 1 million people so far . How can I be fine? How can I […]
- THE ART OF DELIGHTING OURSELVES IS NOT LOST October 12, 2020Quite a few people I know say if only we could be like Scotland where strict Nicola is playing a blinder and seems to know exactly where she’s going. But does she really?Bossy Nicola’s figures are getting worse and she’s now about to close the pubs. I got delight from Quentin Lett’s observation that Nicola […]
- EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT October 5, 2020There’s an obsessive fatalism that currently fills the airwaves and pages of the newspapers. We are doomed, as Private Frazer used to say grimly in “Dad’s Army”. But we are clearly not doomed; we are just being forced to change. And change isn’t comfortable. We, who lived through the early days of the Thatcher administration […]
- DOWN, DOWN, DEEPER AND DOWN September 28, 2020Isn’t the word “down” depressing? You feel down…you are downcast or run down or you have a meltdown. Yet it’s le mot du jour. The government got the lowdown from the scientists and have decided to crack down on the virus by declaring a lockdown which is leading to an economic breakdown. Despite Tory backbenchers […]
- WE'RE NO LONGER GOLDEN October 26, 2020