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Saturday, 3 August 2019

Brigands, Buccaneers, BT and Statutory Undertakers

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There has been an impassioned plea in the media today by BT - begging the government to give them greater powers to dig up the streets. Or t...
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Friday, 2 August 2019

The unbearable idiocy of the bien-pensant Left

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A more perfect example of the purblind idiocy of the bien-pensant Left than Philip Collins' piece in the Times this morning cannot be ...
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Thursday, 1 August 2019

AEP skiing off-piste

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I normally devour anything that AEP delivers through the pages of the Telegraph, but this morning's column, departing as it does from hi...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Sorry, SeƱor, no Pizza - Welsh rarebit?

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I don't know where my righteous anger has gone these days. I'm so chilled that raising enough invective even for a blog post to main...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Saint Greta: We should all travel by J-class yacht

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Older readers may recall the last of the J-class yachts of past years; enormous, ocean-going yachts that could accommodate a pair of chester...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

EU Zealots determined to unleash crippling pain on EU27

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The Prime Minister has been clear. We were open to a deal, we wanted a deal - a deal that was a mutually agreed amicable parting from the te...
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Sunday, 28 July 2019

Britain's stinking corrupt honours system - Barwell to be Lord

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Cameron may have knighted his hairdresser, but May will make her failed-MP chum Gavin Barwell a Lord , it's reported. Barwell, who assis...
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Saturday, 27 July 2019

Liveability, Localism and Law and Order - Boris in Manchester

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Over lunch I've just listened to Boris delivering his Manchester speech (25 mts) and if you have the time it's worth a listen. The L...
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Friday, 26 July 2019

Anglo- French race to space?

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I'm starting to enjoy this Summer even more by the day, and the Ashes are just starting, which means guerillacricket replaces Radio Caro...
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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Wow. I don't think anyone was expecting that.

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A taste of the way things were going yesterday came early, with news that Dominic Cummings was in the Number Ten team. Then we knew Boris wa...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Just enjoy their discomfort

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Columns will be filled for many months with Boris and Brexit, and we have a way to go and a likely general election to face, but just for to...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

'Noncefinder-General' Tom Watson under fire for credulity

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Watson has long been a conspiracy theorist. After the Savile failure, he made the cardinal error of telling fellow MPs that he believed in a...
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Monday, 22 July 2019

Boris is right - the dreary pessimists must pack their bags

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I think today will be the last Monday - at least for some time - that Boris Johnson's column appears in the Telegraph. His final appea...
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Sunday, 21 July 2019

Lawfare - The tide turns

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This year's Reith Lectures by Lord Sumption really were extraordinarily prescient. Go on, listen to them if you haven't already - af...
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Saturday, 20 July 2019

Poor Doors

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Well, what did they think would happen when the planning system forced folk who can afford to buy an £800k apartment and folk who can only p...
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Friday, 19 July 2019

BBC TV Tax thugs will kill the old

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I must admit that when resident in the UK I always paid the TV Tax. To save my buyer from harassment and intimidation from the TV Tax Stasi,...
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Thursday, 18 July 2019

Con Coughlin lunches with the right MoD briefer this time

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Back in 2015 this blog was something of a lone voice in advocating kicking Turkey out of NATO for its support for ISIS and Sunni terrorism ...
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Selmayr OUT - VdL squeaks in by 9 votes

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Rejoice - Selmayr is OUT. The Telegraph, having the wool pulled over its eyes, reports   Martin Selmayr, the German controversial secretar...
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Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Will Labour ditch Magic Grandad before the General Election?

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As far as Brexit goes, Labour's Magic Grandad is one of the party's few MPs actually standing for both working-class principles and ...
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Monday, 15 July 2019

Will Farage cook Von der Leyen's goose?

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It will not be a good week for the German lady who wants a Euro army, and who has warned the UK that she is just as much of a bully as the r...
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