About 2 1/2 years ago I wrote a post titled “California plans to kill the residential solar industry.” At the time, I had just had solar panels installed on my roof to save money and within months California announced a new plan (Net Metering 3.0) that would have taxed me and anyone else who owned […]
‘TAKING the piss’ is one of those phrases in common use of which few people know the original meaning. As a crude remark, it is sometimes more politely reworded by journalists and commentators as ‘extracting the urine’. But like the misused raw version, making fun of someone is not really what ‘taking the piss’ means. […]
This report is from the US IN 1845, the US Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought ‘to establish a uniform time’ for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – […]
IF YOU’VE ever thought about writing a non-fiction book, now is the time as it has never been easier. When I started writing current affairs books about 20 years ago, you either had to find a publisher who would take your book or, if you wanted to self-publish, you’d have to spend hundreds of pounds […]
IT WAS on the day of Churchill’s funeral in January 1965 that I escaped from the cold into a café in Paddington to warm up over a coffee: the sort that we’d now call a cappuccino. At that time it was known as an espresso, and was invariably served in a Pyrex cup and saucer. As […]
ANNA Wintour appeared on BBC’s Any Questions during the Monica Lewinsky affair. I youthfully cared about politics and thought the invitation to the editor of a fashion magazine undermined the whole show. How wrong I was. The Vogue editor shared a political pearl of wisdom I have never forgotten. Asked what she thought of the woman with whom Bill […]
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On the 25th of February this year, a young Air Force airman who’d grown up in a religious cult, (then broke free “trading one high control group for another high control group” – the Air Force) gave away his cat and his fridge full of rootbeer. He had already texted his closest friend to apologize […]
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) wants to put a stop to members of Congress leaving their office early to return to the private sector, likely to a gig as a highly paid lobbyist. She launched the Don’t Quit to Lobby Act. The message is to stay and finish the job. If a person is elected to […]
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