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This Country

I have watched ‘This Country’ with passing interest on a couple of occasions but never really got glued to it. However, last night I had my younger son over to stay and we watched the first two episodes of series three. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much at a TV screen. It’s probably an age thing but I generally hate most of what I see on ...

Impartiality, QT, and the BBC

I tend to play cricket on Thursday nights, so I don’t generally have the misfortune of stumbling upon BBC Question Time. Even without that, I have tended to avoid it after it turned into a bear pit last year when Diane Abbott was on the show. I am pretty much ambivalent when it comes to Diane Abbott. She is obviously a thousand times more intelligent than ...

The New Immigration Policy

The government have administered a populist masterstroke with the post Brexit immigration policy. They have focused most people (particularly Brexiteers) on the minimum 26k salary to avoid immigration of unskilled labour. However, they have done this whilst distracting people from a potential race to the bottom in the skilled sector. For all those who think EU ...

Impulse Winning the Battle Against Logic

I was wondering the other day how it could be that populism is so successful right now? How is it that the world almost seems upside down and logic is defied by impulse? I am not an expert and even a psychologist that I do know, is baffled by what sometimes feels like a descent into madness. We are in a period where, whether you are in the workplace, or at the ...

The Gentlemen

We went to see ‘The Gentlemen’ last night. As you would expect with a Guy Richie film, it involved drugs, Britain’s underworld, and several easy to follow plotlines. Featuring a sophisticated, Oxford educated American drug lord (Mickey Pearson) an underhand Jewish businessman, Chinese wannabe drug lords, the chav MMA members of a boxing club run by a ...