Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. This is the last in the series. ONLY 13 episodes were made, they each lasted less than a quarter of an hour and the main character was a saggy old cloth cat. Yet the 1974 series Bagpuss is lodged in the hearts of generations of […]
Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power by Ramesh Thakur; Brownstone Institute, 2023 ‘THE years of living with oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance.’ One undoubted hero is the author of these words, Ramesh […]
SINCE writing my previous piece in TCW critiquing the Church of England’s plan for blessing same-sex couples, the scheme has been enfleshed in the form of the draft Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF). I should couch any criticism here with an understanding that these prayers are still being formulated and should therefore be judged less harshly; however their authors […]
THE single joke which made our children laugh the most – and does to this day – was, I fear a little crude. It was based on the theme song of Parsley the lion in The Herbs, the original of which goes as follows: ‘I’m a very friendly lion called Parsley, I am always very glad to […]
While Notes from the Sticks is having a short break, we are repeating some previous columns. This was first published on February 13, 2022. UNTIL a few weeks ago, all I had seen of kingfishers was a very occasional bright blue streak flying low and fast over water. Then one appeared on a rock in […]
Hogarth “Chairing the Member” 1818 Auld Mac’s Almanack, or what the calendar for 2024 holds. And boy is 2024 going to be a one huge year for those of us who enjoy following elections and trying to for-guess the result. Truly we are in for a combo of the World Cup and the Olympics as […]
THOSE of you who peer at your phones to get the latest news often fail to see the really interesting items buried a long way from the front pages. Here are some that you might have missed, taken mainly from one broadsheet this month. ‘Staff at the accounting giant PwC have been told to settle […]
The Hello Lamp Post initiative in Dundee encourages members of the public to start up a conversation with lamp posts, bus shelters and fences about the climate and nature emergency. FEELING lonely? Depressed? Out of sorts? You might consider popping up to Dundee to have a chat with a lamp post. You can talk about […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. AT the beginning of the 1980s, teacher John Cunliffe was working in Kendal, in the Lake District, and decided to write about a character who toured the area visiting his friends and helping them out of a jam. The result was the stop-motion […]
One Democratic mayor has no interest in honoring the women who helped build modern America. Donna Deegan, who was elected as the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, in May, celebrated the removal of a Confederate statue on Wednesday but insisted she was not trying to “erase history” in the process. The statue, named “In Memory of […]
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