Category: Eclectic Blue

I was shocked to see the headline on my Guardian – kids: it’s a newspaper, something your grandparents read – which reads ‘Palace to hold ‘bullying’ investigation. After gaining a creditable...

After an industrial-sized meltdown this morning, and a day peering through a metaphorical and real fog, things are not quite so bad now. Although social networks can be pernicious and destructive, today the Facebook variety came...

I have some sympathy for people who are going out in large numbers to enjoy the later winter/early spring weather. Judging from pictures in the Bristol Post, the centre of Bristol and the Harbourside areas were extremely busy at...

I bow to no one in my admiration for England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty. With the erratic hand of Boris Johnson at the wheel, Whitty’s has been a voice of calm, of realism and of honesty. At the...

I happened to be in Brislington today, the eastern suburb on the outskirts of Bristol as we never called it when I was living there. Doubtless, as the area becomes gentrified and the local pubs turn into craft ale bars, no one...

The ever-increasing number of ex footballers coming forward to reveal they have dementia must be unnerving for just about everyone who has played the game at some point. I’m hoping that my total inability to win a heading...

Someone has had a word with Boris Johnson. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, spectacularly mishandled by Johnson to disastrous effect, and today he finally appeared to get something right. In the House of Commons, Johnson...