There was a neat piece in the latest issue of Private Eye, out last week. There frequently is, of course. This one opened up thus: “A bombshell ...
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After being hotly tipped to win a lot of awards at the Golden Globes last evening, events in California proved to be something of an anti-climax for A...
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There’s only a little over a week left if you wish to see the Elton John/David Furnish photographic exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Muse...
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My wife and I do not have a dog. One of our sons and his girlfriend do, an adorable pomsky, a cross-breed involving a pomeranian and a husky. She stay...
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One is regularly reading about how tough it is for restaurants in the present financial climate, what with increased costs for the proprietors and the...
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I went to see the new Paddington film this week. Informally it’s called Paddington 3 but in fact its title is Paddington in Peru. And financiall...
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You are probably aware that the government announced its budget last week. There was, understandably, quite a fuss about it. It was the first by a Lab...
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Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by a narrow stretch of water called the Straits of Messina. Plans are intermittently advanced about spanning t...
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It seems a long time ago that we were in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic (OK, it started in March 2020) and a time when we thought we might neve...
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