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Conquering The Test Way – Inspired by Branson, Bezos & Musk

Posted on April 18, 2022

I have decided that for no discernible reason, 2022 is going to be the year I complete The Test Way. The Test Way, if you don’t know, is a path that starts at Inkpen Beacon and finishes in Eling, Southampton. I started this quest for greatness today, when, with no little enthusiasm, I conquered the stretch between St Mary Bourne and Hurstbourne Tarrant. This was a four-mile, thirst-quenching ordeal through tough terrain as the temperature ...

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Dog Whistling Johnson is Shoring up His Base Support

Posted on April 15, 2022

Sometimes I struggle to believe how awful our government is. Then they do their best to remind me. Johnson knows that a fine and bad publicity is coming, so he heads off to Ukraine to pose as a key player in a tragic war. World-beating this, leading the way that, spending this, blah, blah, blah. Shoring Up The response to his visit was not as he had hoped, and the bad press kept coming. So, next up, a ludicrously expensive dog whistling...

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Riv-oo-lay or Riv-u-let…That is the Question!

Posted on April 10, 2022

This little walk is just across the road from me. It is called the Bourne Rivulet. I presumed it must be French.  So, I was down by the village cricket ground the other day and I got talking to a local type. I told him I had just been on a lovely walk along the Bourne Reev-oo-lay. “Where?” He said. “The Reev-oo-lay”, I replied, already fearing the worst. “You mean the Riv-u-let…it’s the Bourne Riv-u-let”, he chuckl...

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A Bad Week for Sunak is a Good One for Johnson

Posted on April 8, 2022

Well, it’s not been a great week for Rishi Sunak, has it? There has been a lot said about his wife’s tax affairs, but one thing is for certain, they are not illegal. But does that make it all okay? In my opinon it comes down to standards and how cabinet ministers set them. Sunak’s wife is the daughter of a billionaire. She utilises a tax loophole that means she is only liable to pay tax in the country where she has earned it. In this ...

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The Vandalism of Channel 4

Posted on April 5, 2022

Channel 4 is being sold by the government. So why would that be? It is state-owned so you could argue that it costs the taxpayer money. The problem with that argument is it doesn’t cost the taxpayer a penny. It is independently financed with over 90% of its resources coming from advertising. Why Sell it Off? So why would the government want to sell it? Well, one of the towering political figures of our times, Nadine Dorries, says the ...

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