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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, February 05, 2016

Flying the Union flag

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click photo to enlarge I get the impression that the Union flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is b...
Friday, January 01, 2016

New Year Honours and the Limehouse Link

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click photo to enlarge There's nothing wrong with a society recognising those who make an exceptional, selfless contribution to their...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Delusions from on high

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click photo to enlarge When it was suggested that Tony Blair should have a prime ministerial jet for international travel - popularly dubb...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Inequality

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click photo to enlarge Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) , a man who was on two occasions the prime minister of Great Britain, once said, ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The blame game and rain drops

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click photo to enlarge Am I cynical in thinking that our prime minister's exhortation to stop playing the "blame game" conc...
Friday, December 20, 2013

The Thames Cable Car

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click photo to enlarge There has been something of a kerfuffle in the UK because a supposedly independent body has suggested that membe...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Price, value and Oscar Wilde

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click photo to enlarge "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." (from "The Picture of Dori...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Democratic responsibilities

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click photo to enlarge Living under the benefits of a democracy confers rights as well as responsibilities. One of the duties, it seems t...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The masks slip further

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click photo to enlarge The UK's feeble coalition government is currently basking in a warm glow after months of limping along from on...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Politicians and limestone scenery

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click photo to enlarge It increasingly seems to me that anyone who puts themselves forward to be a politician, through that very act, dem...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Social climbing and The Old Custom House

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click photo to enlarge When Margaret "there is no such thing as society" Thatcher was prime minister the Conservative Party ca...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Politics, ripples and reflections

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click photo to enlarge The present British coalition government is the most inept that I have known in my lifetime, a period lest I forg...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Games, money, myopia and heritage

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click photo to enlarge Our government of political pygmies makes much of the need for cuts in public expenditure and the fact that, as f...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

Votes and buoys

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click photo to enlarge For most of my lifetime the majority of the electorate have voted for left of centre candidates in UK elections. And,...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

None of the above

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click photo to enlarge Today I went to cast my vote in the local elections and did something that I've never done before - I spoiled my ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Bile, vitriol and politics

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click photo to enlarge A lot of the comment that I have read in the U.K. and U.S. press surrounding the recent shooting of an American Congr...