April 2020

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COMMENT

19 April 2020Tags, automatically uppercase

The Silence of the Hams

TOMORROW  Lulu Shayler on the benefits of lockdown.

emails from history

Good Friday AD 33JESUS CHRIST, LAST SUPPER, JUDAS ISCARIOT

Subject: SUPPER
From: Judas@silvermail. com
To:  Peter@hotmail
Cc: Andrew@aol.com, James@btinternet.com, John@whatmail.com , Mathew@mymail.com, Philip@aol.com, Thomas@virgin.com, Bartholomew@btinternet.com, James@hotmail, Jude@btintranet.com; Simon@israeltel.com.

Hi all, I’ve booked a table for 13 tomorrow night (Wed) at Ishmael’s. Can everyone make that? Laters, Judas

THE VIEW FROM MRAK

8 April 2020lockdown, games, quizzes

‘No, I hate quizzes. I usually know the answers, it’s just that I can’t remember them’

‘Well, Mark, he made you look a bit of an idiot.’ But I knew I would soon be boasting about the day I fought Hirotaka Okada, twice champion of the whole flipping world

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POLITICS

26 April 2020politics, debate

The Way I See It
Horace Edgerley opines

‘As I considered the political situation laid out before me, I have been minded to coin a phrase which i think rather neatly sums up the predicament of our rulers: They are falling into the trap of over-promising and under-delivering.’ 
So says our insightful political columnist Horace Edgerly.  Read him tomorrow: ONLY IN THE SECOND POST! 

 

‘Then comes the band of the Royal Marines,
One ukele and two tambourines’ 

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media

19 April 2020COVID, MEDIA

How many had to die before the British media got its act together? And what is their strategy now?


 ‘Are you ashamed of your coverage, Mr Pym?

Muddled, hysterical, inconsistent, contradictory and  slow off the mark. TOMORROW Debbie Briscoe looks at the UK media’s shambolic response to Corona Virus and asks, ‘Have they learned their lesson’?

FEATURES

24 April 2020

HORTICULTURE, OLIVE TREES

By mid September of next year the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will have more olive trees than Eastern Apulia, according to the latest edition of Ducrow’s Regional Statistics.

 

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