What is it about me that questions everything I am told? Whether it is the state of the weather, a football result, the taste of food or even this bloody stupid so called pandemic that is flu in any other name. If I am told it is raining, I will […]
Tag: Tony Blair
February 2021’s Thoughts
It is 6.30 am of a Monday morning at the beginning of February 2021, 18 days from my 75th birthday and I am just wondering whether anything has improved in those 75 years. I was conceived on or just after VE Day 1945. I know I was a late baby […]
Fresh Lonely Air in England – Part 2
I landed at Manchester Airport expecting tight security but saw nothing, it was possibly all centered in central Manchester where the explosion had happened 24 hours earlier. Thoughts of Helen had been overtaken by circumstances but Daughter 3 was dutifully awaiting as I walked out of the terminal to a […]
My Day In Dublin At The Risen People
Well what a day I had in Dublin yesterday. Every time I go down, although round here they say up, to Dublin, even though Dublin is south east of here, you never here of people in Manchester say go up to London but I suppose up to Dublin might have […]
Wilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan is a strong woman, with her fingers in a lot of pies, gifted, with an unbelievable ease in public speaking and a god given gift for getting her message across, a true teacher. Her latest book Wilful Blindness published in 2011 explains in great detail why 85% of […]
Savile Is Dead. Who Takes The Reins?
These last few weeks I have been wondering about Savile and his works and pomps and trying to make sense of how an uneducated lad from Leeds can get into the minds of powerful folk. It is a massive criminal gift but I think it can easily be done if […]
Orders of the Vatican
I would like to turn the readers attention to Orders of the Vatican. These are not instructions from our most beloved Pope but honorific Orders given or sanctioned to the good and honourable by our Holy Father. There are two types of Orders, three really, but I will explain. Papal […]
All Praise To Enda Kenny – Taoiseach Of Ireland
It is exactly a year ago today, on 21st July 2011 and while the leaders of the free world stood around and scratched their arses, none of them daring to say a word against those ogres of men in the Vatican and Joseph Ratzinger in particular, did Enda Kenny, the […]