Category Archives: News and politics

Sorry I’m Not Marching

Just to assure you that there are many more of us who would like to be out on the streets, demonstrating against the governments ideologically motivated austerity programme, if only our health & stamina would allow it. Why are you … Continue reading

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Respectable Crooks

Well, it certainly makes a change for a daytime radio programme (in this case Jeremy Vine – Radio 2)to look at the business of tax evasion. There’s certainly been overkill, and Osborne inspired exagerration, on the issue of benefit cheats. … Continue reading

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Sinna Luvva explores Parliamentary Politics

A QUESTION OF MORAL AUTHORITY is todays blog posting on ‘The Word of Sinna Luvva’

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Culture Clash

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A Question of Interpretation

"There are not going to be any timetables. Why would you say to the enemy, you know, ‘Here’s a timetable; just go ahead and wait us out?’"- PRESIDENT BUSH, on calls for a schedule to move troops out of Iraq. … Continue reading

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Thoughts On An Improved Service

"how pleasant, for once, not to begin the working day listening to John Humphrys hectoring another politician. And what an agreeable prospect awaits this evening of not having to end it with Jeremy Paxman sneering at one either." [From ‘Guardian’ … Continue reading

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How strange the change from health-check to tirade .!

Health Check: Currently back on the minimal dose of venlafaxine (rather than starting dose of zispin) just awaiting further developments. Also back on proton pump inhibitors which seems to help. Went out for my brief brisk walk, this afternoon, but … Continue reading

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If It’s Worth Saying Once

JUST COULDN’T RESIST REPEATING THIS BLOG ENTRY FROM ‘THE WORD OF SINNA LUVVA’ Sunday, May 15, 2005 He, Being Dead …. Radio Times, 16 May …. BBC2 … 11.20pm"One-time prime minister Jim Callaghan, who died in March, speaks frankly about … Continue reading

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Makes You Think

So, Prime Minister Bliar cannot see where the culture of yobbism and disrespect comes from. Shouldn’t he look towards his heroine Thatcher and her policies of asocial self interest !  Similarly, He who wages illegal wars (in our name at that) fails … Continue reading

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