It's sad that today so many young people don't remember what the Poppy symbol stands for, who introduced it and what it's all about. The trouble is, of course, that all the British soldiers who died in the Opium wars of 1839->1860 have passed on now and no one remembers them. Honestly Queen Victoria must be turning in her grave.
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Clacton Constitutional Crisis
MPs are not allowed to resign from Parliament. However, a parliamentary loophole exists that allows an MP to vacate their seat by asking the...
Least ignored nonsense this month...
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I cannot believe (well, I can) the number of people willing to defend Louise Haigh who has just resigned as Secretary of State for Transport...
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It's hard to keep up with all the whoppers promoted on X but I particularly enjoyed this one on that the NHS had a "thriving health...
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The new "what has the BBC ever done for me?" ad is awful. The original was a pub packed with stars and the joke was how much talen...
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....an Ombudsman with terms of reference so narrow that even paper doll man struggles to get through them. The previous two complaints were...
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You'd think the Jewish Chronicle whose articles for no apparent reason wander across my feeds would be just a little bit pleased that a ...
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"No British PM has completed a term in office since 2015, despite two of those PMs being elected with landslide majorities. The country...
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Canterbury and the River Stour are both still there... ...they haven't changed. Not one jot.
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I wrote to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Unit about the Palestine Action Proscription ruling and in particular Baroness Carr's lud...
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Well, after some time I finally got to the end of Deep Space Nine. Unfortunately I didn't manage to do this before it all got taken off...
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Well, I went on the Speed Awareness course. It was somewhat improved from the running traffic lights course I went on some years ago in tha...

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