The word "despite" here presumably implying that it has generally been the custom among British mining companies to heed the pleas of their draft animals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"... whether one leans towards Team Jeremy or Team Zarah in the current fracas, the ballast lies with Corbyn. Only he can be the midwife of the new party." averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2025/09/relu...

A superb sample of sustainable Britishness has emerged at Scotland's first commercial windfarm, where obsolete turbine blades are piling up in a warehouse because nobody knows how to recycle them thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/carb...

Well was it said of Northern Ireland that it has a problem for every solution thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

Killer's Kiss: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social review of Kubrick's noir sophomore piece bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/09/kill...

"... the situation can and must be retrieved. Open the membership, put the party on a firm financial and organisational setting, regularise the already-existing branches and fora, and let's have this founding conference where the purpose and politics of our party can get thrashed out."

It wrote itself falling down the stairs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Team Starmer orders the Environment Agency to stop prioritising the environment www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is another country. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

Taxpayers who lost their lives to Fishy Rishi's Eat Out to Help Out virus facilitation scheme will be gratified to learn that the Trumpster's second term in office isn't the only thing they have escaped thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/chea...

It beggars belief that this needs explaining: Why it is in Labour Party's political interests for its leader to attack racism and see through "traditional" Labour policies. averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2025/09/keir...

Full-timers, back office types, and fixers who were featured in 2020's so-called Labour Files had better watch out. It looks like the media has just noticed they exist.

His Majesty's Loyal Opposition has been squealing with patriotic indignation over the Crown Prosecution Service dropping charges against two men whom the previous administration accused of spying for the Heathen Chinee thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/insi...

Legitimate and understandable as some concerns may be, especially to people who are worried about living on an island of strangers, there still have to be limits thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/not-...

Things wirral never be the same again

Perhaps someone led them to believe they were living on an island of strangers theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It is a truth not quite universally acknowledged, that the vast majority of Christians have not read the Bible, do not follow the teachings of Jesus, and have no real belief in their own or their loved ones' prospects of Paradise thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-ye...

despite, prep. (Middle High Journalese) with reference to; at least partially owing to; as a natural and predictable result of

Her husband is in Paradise and she's very annoyed about it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For the British, there can be few more cruel dilemmas than having to choose between racism and banging people up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's all kicking off again at Bangor Cathedral, where the previous culture of being almost interesting has run into a bit of a hangover thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/wale...

"It was precisely because of his ability to schmooze and flatter plutocrats that the Prime Minister packed him off to Washington in the first place. Small wonder he still has full confidence in Mandelson being able to carry on with his role."

Thoughts and prayers working about as well as ever, then www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This time, apparently, Baby Jesus failed to find a family man to deflect the bullets into www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rah www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It is pointless to ask where it ends. It ends when all your problems are solved, when the Nation is healed, when Values are triumphant. You might just as well ask how much snake-oil constitutes an overdose www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Travelogue to Llangollen, with dinghy-wranglers and more thejudge.me.uk/Raves/Raves_...

It's all very well to whinge and whine about food banks and zero-hours contracts, but today's tough economic circumstances can lead to genuine hardship even for those who aren't little people thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/flab...

"Mainstream is probably a couple of years or so too late. Had this coalition formalised itself to prevent Starmer's backsliding, it could have been a bulwark against his leadership's capitulations and stupidities and the fragmentation of the party base."

Since whipping an island of strangers into world-beating shape is necessarily a military concern, it's only natural that Team Starmer should be considering the use of military sites thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...

We can call them boot-'em-out camps while we muster our concentration www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Poland lost seventy per cent of its libraries during the Second World War. More recently, Britain had its libraries closed, starved and security-gated, and then voted the perpetrators in again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I am by no means a sycophant but the taste of tangerine rectum is objectively the best thing for Britain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apparently there was a time, a century and three-quarters ago, when Britain neglected public transport in favour of military incompetence and squabbling with the Russians theguardian.com/culture/2025...

As is only to be expected given its status as one of the largest and least accountable child abuse machines in modern history, the Church of Rome is itching to attract more young people thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/old-...

"With the cabinet a monochromatic grey of tired, obsolete managerialism, there is every danger the upcoming deputy leader election might see an outbreak of politics."

So confident in their power are the Trumpster and his head=tribble that they remain unintimidated even by certain objective facts thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/hone...

It's true, of course, that every confidence trick needs its dupes, but it hardly seems fair to consider the dupes as some sort of justification for the confidence trick www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Has anyone ever done a musical called Sticky Notes? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

One more reason to be glad the summer's over

Fretting about climate change is all very well for the inhabitants of ideological ivory towers, but in the real world one must adapt to the tough decisions of governments and their owners thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/sold...

Greatly to the indignation of a committee from the House of Expenses Claimants, some private companies have been serving their primary purpose thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/stil...

The beasts www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The CEO of Team Starmer has been informed that the entrepreneurial gumption of Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC does not extend to designing bomb-proof electric cars thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/09/righ...

Certainly am glad Team Starmer rowed back on the green crap www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Makes you feel so dashed safe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

One of the fundamental British values is, of course, that prison sentences should always be longer thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/08/due-...

Parents! Teachers! The white working class are suffering and it's All Your Fault www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Trumpster administration has deported seven whole migrants to Rwanda, which is seven more than His Majesty's Government was ever able to manage thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/08/wret...