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Déjà vu? Huw!

Here we go again! Another celebrity [remember my piece on Katie Price?] comes before the courts, magistrates court that is, charged with a serious crime, and is basically let off. Huw Edwards. That’s who we are talking about just now. That doyen of the great British Broadcasting Corporation who, whilst…

It’s All In The Game – Or Is It?

They think it’s all over – but it is now. “What is she on about?” I hear you ask. The Olympics, of course. What else? So, the Paris Olympics of 2024 departed the French shores like a bat out of hell. I’m thinking of Tom Cruise. Did you see him…

Silence is Not Golden – It’s Criminal!

I am absolutely horrified. I have just heard about a case of sexual abuse. Familial sexual abuse. This is bad. Really bad. But it’s worse than that. Much worse. Here’s the case. Andrea Skinner, a Canadian woman, now aged 58, was sexually abused by her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, her mother’s…

Rough Justice – Tell Me About It!

Hey up! This can’t be right. Prisoners residing at His Majesty’s pleasure, claiming and getting state benefits? When they are already being housed, fed, and looked after at taxpayers’ expense? Something wrong here, methinks! It has come to light (although the practice has been in place for years) that nearly…

Don’t Sushi Me!

Just over a year ago, I took myself off to Aberystwyth Crime Festival. From the train station, I took a taxi up to my lodgings. As the kindly Welsh driver removed my luggage from the boot and placed it on the ground, with a nod and a wink he told…

There’s Nowt So Queer as Folk!

Folks are funny! Death in Paradise, that beloved BBC television comedic cosy crime caper, set in the (fictional) Caribbean Island of Saint Marie, that regularly pulls a whacking eight million viewers per episode, has come under a bit of fire. Man, are they getting it in the neck? They seem to have upset the…

Patience Being a Virtue? It’s A Matter of Life and Death for Some Patients!

Like most people (here and abroad), I was shocked when in that late March evening television news, I saw 42-year-old Catherine, the Princess of Wales tell the nation (and the world) about her (still undetermined) cancer diagnosis. And that she was undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy. I noted she said she was ‘well and…

The Bottom Line?

Some people are just downright shiftless and lazy. Or they just can’t be bothered. It seems. What’s upset J.A. now? I’ll tell ya. Children being sent to school in nappies. Say what? And what’s more, parents think it’s the teacher’s role to be changing nappies and toilet training their kids during school…

Tails Wagging the Dogs? I’m Not Faking Having It!

What in the world…? There is a saying that goes ‘the tail is wagging the dog’ and there is even ‘the lunatics are running the asylum’. You get the general meaning there. And the same could be said of a school in Kent. The matter before us is fake eyelashes. Fake eyelashes? Don’t you…

I Am What I Am – And Don’t I Know It!

Because of television shows like Who Do You Think You Are? and the rise in interest in checking one’s ancestry and genealogy, I am often asked if I would be interested in finding long-lost or forgotten kinfolk. Me? No, thanks! Why would I want to do that? I have enough…