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Posts from the ‘Social’ Category

What’s big, scary and way more important than Brexit? on January 29, 2019

21 New Year’s Resolutions I Will Never Keep on January 5, 2019

Chernobyl in the garage? Mustn’t grumble…we’re British on December 23, 2018

Oi you – welcome to the United Kingdom! on December 5, 2018

Postcard from Sri Lanka – the English abroad, and close encounters of a Barmy kind on November 22, 2018

Harry Hickson’s War Diaries – Happy Ending on November 15, 2018

Harry Hickson’s War Dairy – The Road to Armistice on November 11, 2018

Saudi Arabia and the West after Khashoggi: friendships are more powerful than politics on October 23, 2018

Weaponising Winston on October 22, 2018

Britain’s National Health Service six months before Brexit – my own little road test on October 7, 2018

Obesity: searching for an inconvenient truth on October 3, 2018

Obesity: confessions of a hypocrite on October 2, 2018

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad (or, Who let the dogs out?) on September 9, 2018

Pearls of wisdom from the Lurve Industry on August 30, 2018

Alcohol and dementia: you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t on August 8, 2018

Fake news: spot the deliberate mistakes on August 5, 2018

Shortage, what shortage? Get ready for the ration books on July 8, 2018

My name is Smythe. Spiffington-Smythe on June 26, 2018

Acronym soup – getting lumpier on June 26, 2018

The broken phone syndrome – a view from Gilead on June 13, 2018

The Rules of Golf – a shining beacon for our new world order? on June 10, 2018

So it’s time to stamp out cruelty to small words on June 7, 2018

Shame, Redemption and the American Way on May 31, 2018

Fog signals, lightning strikes and obituaries – a wander down the byways of the mainstream media on May 29, 2018

The Irish Referendum on May 27, 2018

This is what entitled looks like on May 25, 2018

Harry and Meghan – we pulled it off again on May 20, 2018

One of us – how football can teach us to embrace immigration on May 18, 2018

The final RetroSaudi – Ramadan on May 7, 2018

British local elections – an earthquake in my little town on May 5, 2018