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Monthly Archives: August 2018
When Friends Become Enemies
I was writing yesterday about how I fell out with an old friend who I’d found out had been working for Tobacco Control for much of the time I knew her. She was a friend who became an enemy. Friends … Continue reading
Wasted Lives
I used to know somebody who worked in Tobacco Control. She was a very good friend of mine for 30 years or more. We used to go on holiday together. I didn’t know that she worked in Tobacco Control. I … Continue reading
Beyond The Fringe
James Delingpole and the Daily Caller have drawn attention to a letter in the Guardian signed by 60 assorted worthies, the thrust of which is found in one of its closing lines: We will no longer debate those who deny that … Continue reading
The Wright Stuff
I’ve spent my life building models. As a boy I built model buildings, and I bombarded model soldiers in model fortresses with model shells fired by model artillery pieces. And I built model dinosaurs from matches. And I built model … Continue reading
None Of Them Speak For Me
It’s my personal opinion that American politics is always more interesting than British politics. I think that in part this is because there’s much more at stake: the President of the United States is the most powerful man in the … Continue reading
John Who?
Despite being banned from YouTube, Alex Jones’ Infowars is still online, and drew attention yesterday to an interview of ex-CIA spook John Brennan by Bill Maher: Right at the end of it there’s this exchange: Maher: And we have an … Continue reading
The Lust For Power
My Member of Parliament surprised me a couple of years ago when he told the crowd assembled before him that he “wanted to represent his constituents.” How many MPs want to represent their constituents these days? It is actually what … Continue reading
Lost For Words
I wake up every day thinking about the smoking ban. Most days I have nothing new to think about it. In fact most days I have nothing new to think about anything. Or at least not initially. But after I’ve … Continue reading
Terminated
Since early August, the Alex Jones YouTube channel has been displaying a single line of text: This account has been terminated for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines. But he seems to have popped up on other video channels, like real.video and … Continue reading
Revolutionary Ideas
I’ve been trying to remember the geography lessons I got taught, aged 10, back in about 1960. I seem to remember that there were three kinds of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. Igneous rocks came from deep inside the Earth, … Continue reading
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