...guess who's running the show. Remember this from three years ago, anyone? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anger-after-saudi-arabia-chosen-to-head-key-un-human-rights-panel-10509716.html...
We've got a camera in the garden to watch the foxes and the hedgies. But the camera is mounted on a former bird table and Charlotte builds webs on and around it. And if she's very very busy then you...
Thirty Years on. BBC2 9.00pm Look forward to this. Advertised as (stress added by VE) as "a return to Yorkshire where the protest first began to examine [i]the lasting effects[i] the book has had on...
Have started watching the shows post DD in order to see how well Ms Bruce performs. To be honest I thought she wouldn't be up to the task: the presenter's role is a skill which requires a good deal of...
...that's not acceptable.
Nicolas Sarkozy quoted inthe second part of "Inside Europe: 10 Years of Turmoil".
What do you make of that, then?
(Ancient "News", but not necessarily irrelevant)...
...for VE (and, I guess, many people of my generation). Did you catch it? BBC4 last night 9.00 pm - "Buddy Holly: Rave On" (my favourite Buddy Holly song at the time). Fascinating commentary. Didn't...
Just seen that the 1971 film "Villain" is being shown on Talking Pictures. Little known film starring a VE favourite. Superb performance as an East End criminal gang leader. Wonder if I'll enjoy it as...
I think not. This my take on the issue: we joined a trading bloc originally; now we've ended up having delegating legislative and juridical authority to an EU whose policies are set by an oligarchy....
Despite its small size AB is geographically diverse. Its many small micro-climates provide niche ecologies which sustain rare and sometimes unique species. Which ones are your favourites? Here are two...
James Watson (him of the double helix) this time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/james-watson-scientist-honors-stripped-reprehensible-race-comments Is the naughty step enough? Will it...
Do you agree? I'm referring to the best comment yet on the uplifting Gillette ad "The Best a Man can be" and the educational opportunities it presents : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDFqi41iV0...
...and in twenty years time we wouldn't need to give aid. to Africa. This is a quote from a Mirror journalist on Sky's Press Preview discussing the utility of Western aid budgets to the third world....
Bonne Année à tous. A New Year's gift to friends and enemies of the EU. It's an intelligent .comment by De Tocqueville from his reflections on the American republic, and his speculations on future...
