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2026-04-03
Well, Easter is upon us, so to end the week on a lighthearted speculation on what has been, might have been, and may yet be to come, we invoke the spirit of King Arthur to pique our curiosity and free us of our group-think by the noble arts of critical and "outside the box" thinking. Enjoy!
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2026-03-01
And your cat's dinner for that matter, or any other pet, maybe even farm animal that you have cause to feed.
Recent "events" have shone a spotlight on Big Agriculture Big Chemistry and Big Food manufacturers, understandably with the emphasis on food for humans, so is it really any surprise that Big xyz have also been active in the provision of animal food?
Brownstone Institute is on the case.
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2025-12-01
If you are lamenting the current wintry British weather, spare a thought for those for whom the sun no longer shines - not until well into next year anyway.
"Ah but they are used to it" you cry - but so are we. British weather is still mild by comparison with similar latitudes in Europe, thanks to the benevolence of the Gulf Stream. And we benefit from daylight sunshine reasonably often during winter months, even if nowhere near sufficiently often to make Ed Miliband's fantasies into a viable power grid. Even so, a deep freeze winter is thankfully something of a rarity.
So how do those for whom a deep and dark freeze is an annual occurrence cope with their lot?
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2025-11-12
Browsing the net (as one does) I happened upon a Wikipedia page in honour of the Telegraph's satirical column of yesteryear (not to be confused with their current offering under the same title).
As a one-time dedicated Telegraph reader, Peter Simple's imaginary world of societal tragicomic over-earnest fashionably-deluded or simply bonkers characters would invariably bring a chuckle to contend inconveniently with ingestion of breakfast. His great facility in applying appropriate names to his inappropriate characters never ceased to amuse, names which effortlessly conjured the stereotype that we had never even considered existed.
If you too are of similar antiquity and like me never imagined that Peter Simple's make-believe Way of the World was exactly whither we were all inevitably headed, then this may bring it all back ...
(Warning - inadvisable to peruse whilst eating)
As always, if it's not for you, maybe best ignore this one 😎.
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2025-10-26
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