My recent post on home insurance auto-renewal drew a few emails. Here’s one of them: Car insurance is another scam. Mine goes up and if I don’t complain – or don’t realise – I pay over the top, despite not … Read More »
George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew, you just can’t hold on, boys, to every conceivable point of view. Bob Dylan Not long ago I ended an email on a separate matter to Kit Knightly, one of … Read More »
This sneaked into my inbox the other day from my home contents insurers. Can I go to the website and deselect auto renewal? Can I buggery! I have to slalom through the maze of phone flow-chartitude we’ve all come to … Read More »
A Steel City Long Read … I’ve been saying for a very long time now – sometimes I bore myself – that we are sleepwalking into WW3; its likeliest flashpoints the Middle East, South China Sea and Russia’s southern and … Read More »
Michaelmas Day is when the Archangel Michael ejected his colleague Lucifer – a shady type known to use aliases and adept at blending in with the crowd – from Heaven. It’s also my birthday. A gorgeous day as it happens. … Read More »
Replicated verbatim from today’s CaitlinJohnston.com piece. Russia Could Never Discredit The US Empire The Way These Guys Just Did Well. Wow. I mean, wow. So in case you missed it, the first US presidential debate was everything the US empire deserves and a … Read More »
Through the pines. Over the dunes. And onto the beach, the light in constant flux … … an Atlantic north-westerly ripping in relentless. “I’m going out”, said J, pushing through piles of sand outside our bedouin tent. “I may be … Read More »
Some folks – I’m tempted to call them psychological sectarians, more interested in ‘othering’ those outside their cosy club than effecting change in this Vale of Tears – will slam me for this, but all three of my picks this … Read More »
Indulge me a moment, will you? At fifteen I acquired a stepmother. We never got on. Her and dad’s insistence that she be called “mum” didn’t help. For the two years we spent in the same house – I … Read More »
I realise – of course I do – that I’m being a right royal pain. Here I am once more, testing to the limit my readers’ good nature and fairmindedness with the latest of a string of posts in rapid … Read More »