Things can only get better, or can they?
Looking back on 2021 I was all set to call it the year of the hypocrite, but the closer I
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Christmas puddings – or should that be turkeys?
It takes a spectacular level of hypocrisy to accept a job to lead the investigation into alleged parties held in
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Acronyms Routinely Scattered Everywhere
I was delighted last week to read that broadcasters and the news media are to stop using the term BAME.
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Party petulance goes viral
I can count the number of works Christmas parties I’ve enjoyed on the fingers of one finger. There are few
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Is it really too much to ask?
With cases of the new COVID Omicron variant already showing up here (in Brentwood and Nottingham), face masks are to
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Brass banned as singer takes the pee
For a performer there are few things better than an enthusiastic, responsive crowd. And they don’t come any livelier than
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Wake up you wokers
John Cleese was already one of my heroes before last week, but the fantastic way he exposed woke obsessiveness as
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C- words and B- words
The word sleaze became attached to politics in the mid 1990s when a series of scandals rocked John Majors government
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When did gender become a dirty word?
Comedian Dave Chappelle has found himself in hot water over a comment he made in his latest Netflix special The
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Nostalgia for a decade of no style over even worse content
There’s a wave of nostalgia for the 1980s, particularly the music, that really puzzles me. I can only presume it’s
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