Saturday 6th June – Tuesday 9th June 2020 I’m sorry if you’ve missed me lately but I have to be honest – I’ve been stuck with finding anything to say – not that there isn’t plenty to say – but my (feeble) attempts to do a John Crace or Marina Hyde and take the piss…
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23rd – 24th May 2020 We are living in strange, scary times at the moment and there’s very little coming from 10 Downing Street to put many, if any, minds at rest. One minute we are being told to ‘stay home, protect the NHS and save lives’ and then it’s become ‘stay alert’ with all…
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This blog post was written over the course of three days – 14th – 16th May 2020 – so some events might well have been overtaken but I have indicated when I was actually writing. WHAT IS A LIFE REALLY WORTH TO THE TORIES? No! Really?! What value does the Tory Government really put on…
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Thursday 7th May 2020 There is much talk in the media – UK, European and International – about preparations and plans to lift lockdown measures such as travel bans and social distancing in an attempt to bring some semblance of normality back to economies damaged beyond belief by Covid-19. There is a growing undercurrent in…
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28th April 2020 WHO’S GOING TO BE WATCHING TONIGHT’S PRESS CONFERENCE AND PMQs TOMORROW ? This blog post will be short and sweet today – but expect more before the weekend. Why short ? Well mainly because I’m waiting to see if Johnson turns up tonight or if he hides behind Raab or another of…
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WHERE IS THE ANGER – NO – WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE AND FURY?? As the UK continues to stumble through the Covid-19 pandemic our Government continues to avoid the truth of their incompetence and point undisguised fingers of blame at their scientific advisors and you, the public. At the same time they personally jump the…
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Yesterday afternoon in my blog I wrote complaining that the slides showing the Governments data was being, for want of a better word, manipulated to skew the way things looked – note the compressed vertical scale below: I then added my own rough attempt at showing a better scale which, I felt, showed a more…
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7th April 2020 Hello again one and all and here we are in sunny France at the start of our 4th week of lockdown. And sunny it really is – I’m sat here in shorts and t-shirt enjoying the weather and the prospect of more to come. The garden is awash with colour – daffodils,…
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Today is April Fools’ day and it is becoming more and more apparent that the UK Government is treating us all like fools as their lies start coming home to roost. The Covid-19 pandemic is a global disaster but one we had some advance notice of when the outbreak started in China, but what did…
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1st April 2020 I’ve been trying to post since 25th March but for some reason this blog wont publish – so I’m trying again in a stripped down version. If you want the article complete with links please e-mail me at jem@jembrookes.com and I’ll send you the Word doc it was originally written on. Please…
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