Tag: politics
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…November 2025
The British public began November by celebrating Guy Fawkes’ efforts to blow up Parliament in 1605, and ended the month with the government’s efforts to blow up the economy, courtesy of yet another tax raising budget.
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…October 2025
Trick or treat – something broke in October and now the days are getting shorter. All the usual ghouls have haunted the news cycle this month but the story remains the same; move fast or get slimed.
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…September 2025
September began the way that August ended, with the lead news item being the summit for bad leaders held in China to make the Chinese leader Xi Jinping look good. All the world’s top b*stards – almost all – turned up to showcase their poor fashion sense and discuss how to live forever.
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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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…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…
Nessan Cleary 