Month: May 2025
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Stepping Back
So, Gary Lineker is on his way out of the BBC. It was indeed a stretch to see how somebody so clear about the Tories’ language of the 1930s was oblivious to the rat symbolism used by the Nazis during the same era. He apparently never saw the offending emoji in the post he shared,…
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Pope on a Rope
I find the whole papal election gig fascinating and weird in equal measure. It’s a ritual punctuated by traditional habits, but nun are worth mentioning. Apart from perhaps the hysteria that follows the appearance of white smoke. It’s not as if the world stops spinning on its axis during the interregnum. At some stage, a…
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