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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those Continue reading Progress→

I (perhaps we as a family) needed a distraction from the frustrations of politics and from the mental anguish of coping with the restrictions imposed/self-imposed during the current coronavirus pandemic, so I ordered the Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit game. An Continue reading Distraction (almost zero politics)→

Here are 2 comments of mine in the village Facebook page, responding first to the dilution of the government’s lockdown message, and then (indirectly for obvious reasons) to a couple of arseholes stating that care homes and the old should Continue reading Morally bankrupt→

4 weeks in… Nobody I’ve spoken to so far quite understands the concept of being paid to work from home and that the responsibilities continue despite being physically displaced. I’ve not been furloughed, nor am I on holiday, The responses Continue reading Working from home… not all fun and games→

“…[COVID-19] tests carried out across the UK, excluding Northern Ireland. – Priti Patel, UK Home Secretary [a Conservative politician].” Link. Another article: ‘Speaking at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Priti Patel [a Conservative] was asked twice if she would Continue reading three hundred thousand thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand…→

I bought some noise-cancelling headphones to be prepared well in advance of working from home, or so I thought. Delivered the weekend before the UK government advised non-essential workers to work from home if at all possible. Luckily I can Continue reading Headphones→

Warning: sweary stuff later. I’ve been working from home. Until today I was doing pretty well at it too, motivation high, reasonably productive despite the relative isolation, but I hit a productivity brick wall today. No matter, I’ll have a Continue reading Coronavirus – week 1→

“This is something you won’t want to read, but please read it anyway; it’s worth remembering next time you vote here in the UK.” https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/24/former-tory-adviser-uses-130000-austerity-deaths-to-argue-against-coronavirus-shutdown/amp/ (Link opens in new window.) I said this on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, but it’s Continue reading Evil→

January: It was a bright cold day in April January, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Continue reading 3 seasons: 2020→

An article in defence of the effects of the evolution of the English Conservative Party’s core principles in the decade after forming the 2010 coalition government. I hope you found something useful in it.