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The BBC has recently presented a significant news event in a way that seems to me to be utterly irresponsible and biased.  It shows how reporting the news can slide into creating a news story to achieve an implicit goal. 

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This week in the United Kingdom, two people were thrust into the headlines. One is a university professor. The other is a convicted criminal whose rehabilitation as a local counsellor is being backed by the leader of the Conservative Party.

It sometimes seems that such stories have an increased chance of success if the key figure has an extremely unusual name, or unconventional appearance...

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One of those stories you want to believe in, even if you suspect there is an element of promotional wishful thinking about it.

The four grandmothers, Lynn, Susie, Rose, and Christine met wrestler Gordon DeReiss while travelling to Las Vegas to scatter the ashes of Rose's late husband, Pete. 

As sometimes happens, Gordon was sitting in one of their seats. He was wise enough not to get into an argument with the four grandmothers …

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I wrote it this song initially for myself. It is called Dusky Come Ride with Me. An Anglo-Welsh Odyssey. 

I hope someday it will be heard and maybe sung by a new generation, with a deeper appreciation of the dynamic interplay between the English and Welsh languages and their cultures.

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Recently, a new nightmare known as Gazundering has entered into the process of selling a house…

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Guess what?

I lost my phone yesterday. I did all the usual stuff searching many times in the same place and getting the same result.

That’s one definition of insanity according to Albert Einstein.

As I was carrying out my futile search, the enormity of my loss struck me. The first obvious reason was that I could not contact anyone to help in my search, because I had deprived myself of my main means of communication…

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For many years, local elections in England have been brightened by the appearance of a bizarre figure dressed in a surreal costume topped by  a space age dustbin.

Some have been angered by what they see as making a mockery of the sacred democratic process. Others have celebrated it as an example of quirky English humour lighting up the drab political scene.

Count Binface grabbed the publicity from Nigel Farage when in July 2026 the latter announced his intentions to retire as an MP and then fight for his return in a by-election at Clacton.

The plan took a bizarre turn when major parties refused to take part in the election leaving at one stage the possibility of a two horse race between Binface and Nigel Farage

Binface was quick to advertise his manifesto which captures his surreal humour far better than I can...

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Coming up with a new idea for a product is one of those examples of a search for everyday creativity. The challenge crops up in a wide range of contexts and the approach I’m going to describe is one of various ways of carrying out a successful search. 

It can, however, be applied across a wide range of practical situations. I will take an example an attempt to provide a title for a new song by a small team of songwriters.

I will describe the process in a general way so that it may be tried out in practice by anyone interested.

The list:

Injury

Ambidextrous

Flashback

Dresden

Model estate

Towpath

Romance

Language

Ecstasy 

Dead in a silo

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As regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars.

Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed more brightly than the others. Agatha Christie‘s personal life has become as much a mystery in several ways as those fictional mysteries which brought her fame and fortune.

I have acquired two of her works that were unknown to me but reissued recently. Perhaps they are clues in them I have not detected. But on the first reading, one had all the brilliance that makes Christie‘s work original and brilliant. The other might have been written as an attempt to imitate Agatha Christie by a far less gifted author. 
And that’s the mystery I found myself thinking about…

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Keir Starmer’s historic final hours as prime minister.

Shortly after 9 am, it was clear the moment was imminent, when he and his wife Victoria appeared in front of No 10 Downing Street. 

It is often a symbolic changing of the political guard. Staff from No 10 are in the street applauding. 

Starmer begins the most difficult speech he has ever had to make…

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