Archive for month: November, 2012

We can’t stand the rain

26 November, 2012 (12:18) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

Come on then. With the rain lashing us like we’re living in the end days so the helpless, sodden Earth bleeds muddy tears, let’s get it over with: Climate change. The argument boils down to this: are we, mankind, forcing Earth’s climate to change because of our voracious ways? Or is the Earth just going […]

The wages of sin

19 November, 2012 (14:38) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I understand entirely that Lord McAlpine has been wrongly accused of a heinous crime. What I completely fail to grasp is how anybody thinks £185,000 of public money has anything to do with it. McAlpine, a wealthy man, has accepted the sum from an organisation that did not allege he was guilty of a heinous […]

Don’t panic!

12 November, 2012 (13:06) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

What was it a great man once said? Ah yes, dear Clive Dunn in the immortal Dad’s Army: “They don’t like it up ’em!” As true now as it was then: the BBC has not liked it up ’em, not one little bit. If only the men and women in suits had listened to those […]

Come on this train

5 November, 2012 (15:32) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

What a very strange experience is a fireworks display.   For starters, the local Conservative MP took it upon herself to say a few well-chosen words. Brave, I thought, considering the proximity of a bonfire. How the assembled refrained from chucking her upon it was a tribute to English politeness in the face of adversity. […]