Tag: politics
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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…
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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.
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…January 2025
January has brought with it violent storms in Europe, wild fires in California, a new conflict in the DRC, not to mention the continuing war in Ukraine, and a strong sense that somewhere the four riders of the apocalypse are busy saddling up their horses.
Nessan Cleary 