Category: Commentary
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…August 2025
August started off on a sombre note with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war. Everything went downhill from there…
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…July 2025
Britain has mostly been experiencing global warming in July – starting off the month with a heatwave – but ending with rain; even the Prince of Darkness bowed out, such has been this last month.
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…June 2025
Summertime has arrived in the UK with a heatwave in time for Wimbledon but the living is definitely not easy…
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…May 2025
May has been another month of mayhem, mostly courtesy of one Donald J Trump but backed up with a supporting cast that includes Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and various other actors searching for a role. The fact that most of these crackpots won power through elections – to varying degrees – suggests that civil governance…
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…April 2025
April, as the poet TS Eliot noted, is the cruellest month. Markets around the world have been have been thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump’s trade war, while in Britain the month started with a triple whammy with sharp rises in council tax, energy bills and water rates…
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…March 2025
The fundamental problem of publishing a summary of all the March madness on 1st April is that it’s going to read like an April Fools story, but the joke is very much on the rest of us.
Nessan Cleary 