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Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still ….eight, though by tomorrow that number will have been whittled down further until, by next Thursday, there will be two left standing in the race to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Whether that …

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity Finer than the staple of his argument   Well. That’s been a fun 24 hours, boys and girls. And it’s not over yet. Not by a long way. While there is blood in his veins and breath in his lungs, Boris Johnson, …

The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled To misquote the incomparable Oscar Wilde: To lose one Cabinet Minister, Mr. Johnson, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness A ‘ping’ on my phone as I was dropping daughter off at …

Do not go gentle into that dark night Rage, rage against the dying of the light In one or two of my last missives, I’ve looked at the positive side of life, at the out-pouring of joy that was the main feature of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations and the …

We’re only halfway through 2022, yet the events of the last six months could fill up two whole years! From handling the geopolitical ructions in Eastern Europe, government instability, supply chain disruptions, and a looming cost-of-living crisis, the UK has had to navigate choppy waters. Of course, one hopes these …

It’s a very difficult job and the only way to get through it is we all work together as a team. And that means you do everything I say. Well, that was all rather jolly. By which I mean, nice, productive, useful, fun and really quite lovely, rather than ‘a …

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it Some images stay with you forever. Sometimes they are the good ones – the first sight of your child, delivered by a beaming midwife into your arms, the policeman dancing with children at the Manchester Arena Concert, Johnny Wilkinson’s …

If we’re kind and polite, the world will be right. Thank you. Well, that was all rather splendid and took our minds off, if only for a few days – all the horrific things that are happening in Ukraine, the turmoil at Gatwick et al, and the nonsense in Westminster. …

As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done? Where do I start? I’m very rarely at a loss for …

For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;   We really are a data driven society. Everywhere we go, everything we do is governed by the data that we consume, that we produce, …