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This afternoon, after a truly epic - but in the Towering Inferno sense of the word - scholastic year, Laura (this post will probably be too heartfelt for me to maintain the Child 1 moniker) came home from school for the first time with a proper award. Not 'tried hardest this week', 'best behaved' (which, … Continue reading Child 1 wins a prize… (part 1)
In 1992, a Vanity Fair writer called Maureen Orth wrote what is still considered to be the most succinct account of the legal facts of the prosecution of Woody Allen by the state of Connecticut. You can read the original article here and I'll link to a couple of others throughout this post. There are … Continue reading What people forget about the Farrow / Allen court battle
I served a Muslim woman and her daughter at work today. They come in a lot so we know them well - the daughter's kids are always gutted that our gummy sweets aren't halal... But we just got new vegan ones so I let them know and they were so excited. It was such a … Continue reading ‘Happy Holidays’ is just good manners…
As boring as GDPR probably seems to most people, it's important to bloggers who run a newsletter or who regularly communicate with their followers by email or other forms of messaging. I don't. In all honesty, I've never wanted to bother you, dear readers. I get so much junk mail that I appreciate how quickly … Continue reading The Sophie’s Voice declaration – or don’t let the GDPR get you down…
I'm so happy about Emmanuel Macron's statements about France's role in the holocaust. People tend to romanticise the French occupation. We have an image of an entire country united in resistance - lots of berets and farmers' rifles stick in the picture. They're just not accurate, sadly. Only around 3% of French citizens resisted under the … Continue reading Sorry but not sorry – sometimes you can’t apologise enoughÂ
Katie Hopkins is being sued for libel by Jack Monroe - the writer of the Cooking On A Bootstrap blog. Hopkins took down her original tweet after, apparently, mistaking Monroe for another woman - I guess socialists all look the same, right? - but that didn't stop her digging deeper. And her moronic Twitter followers took the … Continue reading That screen shouldn’t be a veil…
​Shame on you, Jeremy Corbyn - for threatening Labour MPs who proposed to vote against Article 50 with the three line whip. It wasn't fair to ask elected representatives to vote against the wishes of their constituents. I'm proud that three south Liverpool Labour MPs and the LibDem MP for Southport voted against. When Merseyside … Continue reading I’m not going to sugar coat it – Jeremy Corbyn failed voters yesterday…
Throwback Thursday is a piece I wrote at the end of January 2016. Back then I was extremely jaded about the political situation in Britain and beginning to feel the same about the rest of the world. I thought that Trump's terrible 'jokes' - like his vile Bernie Sanders in a gas chamber retweet - … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: How is this acceptable?
Editor's note: yes, dear readers, she married him... Congratulations are apparently in order. If you're still single, hold on to your self esteem - as one of the most evil men of our time is engaged and, if you're anything like me, it’s bound to make you want to barf. This baffling romance is being … Continue reading On the engagement of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall…
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