Tag: review

ANOTHER week but not all bad news, though my personal week hardly started well with the news of yet another old friend’s cancer diagnosis, seemingly sprung from nowhere. Same age as me, fit and healthy till now. My elder son, however, did strike a counter-note. ‘Mum,’ he said, ‘remember Dad got cancer at this age. He was […]

LIFE in Britain seems to me to be getting nastier, shorter and more brutish – another week when it’s been hard to find a highlight or an upbeat note to celebrate. Two abandoned newborns (one dead), more stabbings and a horrendous chemical attack (by somebody who should never have been allowed to stay in the country) […]

THIS was the week I caved in. Another enforcement letter from TV Licensing, more menacing than the last, dropping on my doormat on the same day that I received a county court summons for a cool £19,000 damages claim against me I’d never heard about (for a near-invisible wheel hub I scraped more than three years ago that my […]

HELLO again! We’ve had another great week of articles on TCW – the site where you can access the comment (and news) other media ignore.  Laura has been in fine form – her devastating article on Rochdale stands out. She found the report on the failure of the authorities to respond to the grooming gangs grim reading. These children […]

HELLO, and a belated Happy New Year. We hit the ground running so fast that I feel we’re two months into 2024 already. I can’t remember when we began the new year with such a stunning batch of articles and writers. Our starting gun sounded on January 6 with Professor Angus Dalgleish (of ‘ban mRNA […]

THIS was the week that I got out – or ‘was got out’ – from behind my desk, where I normally spend far too many hours of the day, to enjoy some of the things that London still has to offer. The first was an invitation (courtesy of my elder son) to the Magdalen College Oxford choir’s […]

MY WEEK started with a bang for once. Not on Sunday, which invariably finds me at my computer, catching up with email backlogs and sorting copy for the next week, but on Monday when I went to Portcullis House, at Andrew Bridgen’s invitation, to a ‘presentation on the pandemic and its consequences’ co-ordinated and chaired by himself. […]

I DIDN’T think the BBC had the power to shock me any more but at the start of last week they did, when I read that they had refused Jewish staff permission to attend last Sunday’s march against anti-Semitism. Their specious excuse was it contravened their ‘guidance’ on controversial issues and of breaching impartiality which, when it […]

I HAVE but a hazy memory of the start of my TCW week. I was beset with cough, cold and headache, struggling to keep on top of work. I fear a lot of emails fell off the page before I got to them. Nor was my sense of wellbeing improved on Monday. A further TV Licensing threat landed […]