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  • So that was 2025!

    So that was 2025!

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    At least it ended on a positive note with a fine but very cold day, my blood pressure at 122/65 and my heart rate at 53. I weighed in this morning at 65.4 kg. Last year the numbers were 120/62 and 54 and 65.5 kg meaning no significant change over the year. I continue to…

  • That was an election!

    That was an election!

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    It’s a little over a week since the election and I’d intended to write this post sooner before by reactions to the result have faded. Hopefully I haven’t left it too long. I always find it useful to think in lists of five so what are my five takeaways from the result which, in case…

  • There’s an election coming: vote for Ian Sollom

    There’s an election coming: vote for Ian Sollom

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    We’ve had over four years of a Tory government which started badly and has got steadily worse. And now the current Prime Minister, he’s the third of this parliament and the fifth since the Tories came to power, has called a general election with just 6 weeks notice and several months before he needed to.…

  • Ruanda and Gaza: symptoms of the same malaise

    Ruanda and Gaza: symptoms of the same malaise

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    Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly tell us that the Ruanda bill currently paused by the House of Lords is responding to the ‘will of the people’ and that’s it’s therefore wrong to delay it. But the polling would suggest that it’s the will of some people at best and that overall roughly similar numbers support…

  • Only a fool Mr Sunak …

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    There’s an unattributed quote that suggests that insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’. Maybe its source is the same as the origin of ‘if you’re in a hole stop digging’.

  • 5 reasons I could never vote for the Tories

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    I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted but if I have that’s of the past. The ‘good’ Tories I remember like Michael Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, even John Major seem to have left the scene to be relaced by UKIP clones. The old Macmillan idea of ‘one-nation Tories’ seems to the Tories of today to be…

  • If you really want growth Ms Truss: 5 really good ideas!

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    I’ve been thinking about this post for a couple of weeks now (since Liz Truss’ dreadful ‘growth, growth, growth’ speech at the Conservative Party Conference) and only wrote it last night. With the events of today (Kwasi Kauteng being sacked) it may be redundant or may be even more valid. Whatever. If you really want…

  • It’s none of my business …

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    … because you’ve got to be a member of the Conservative Party to be able to vote in choosing its new leader. But I can have an opinion.

  • Imperial nonsense

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    Enough’s already been written about the lunacy of Johnson’s ‘consultation’ regarding the use of imperial measurements. There’s a good overview in the Guardian (click here).

  • 5 good reasons to vote for the Lib Dem team this year

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    I posted the following on hiopcouncillors.org to support the Lib Dems’ current local election campaign