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2024 will bring Ukraine to the negotiating table –…
IN the spring of 2023 it was widely predicted that the Ukrainian armed forces, equipped with…
Notes from the Sticks: A shedload of sheds
On our return from the festive break, I am handing over the first item once more to DEREK REYNOLDS.…
TCW New Year Reads: The downfall of St David…
Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception, by Susan J Crockford, self-published…
TCW New Year Reads: Bill Gates, the quintessential…
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab; Penguin…
That Reminds Me: Fantasy Football League then and now
IN the 1990s I would race home from work in the early hours of Saturday to watch a video recording…
Britain: Not a serious country
WHEN we think of the Russian Revolution of 1917 we think of Lenin and Trotsky, the storming of the…
TCW New Year reads: Clive James’s finale
The Fire of Joy by Clive James; Picador, 2020 CLIVE James, eyesight impaired by surgery, was unable…
Bonjour! We wish you a Merry Dog Day and a Happy Grape…
IF, LIKE many of us, you tend to get mixed up with dates and days over the Christmas period, spare…
Children’s Favourites: Bagpuss – The Conservative…
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. This is the last…
TCW Christmas reads: The Covid tyranny
Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power by Ramesh…
