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A slightly thinner month of content, partly due to preparation for leading an in-depth tour of the Barbican for London Historians, but principally and more importantly due to the arrival of Grandson No.2. The 8 month old now has competition, but we will have to allow time for the sub-one month old to show his paces.
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This piece is inspired by a Times article written by journalist Deborah Ross, 'How to be an antisemite (don't worry, it's easy)'. So that my effort is a little more than reporting her own insights, I am adding a few thoughts of my own, through some knowledge of the Jewish community.
Finally, a promise by a previous Government has come home to roost. 'Stop the Boats'. As I have written often, statements like these are made by politicians when they know that the promise is unachievable but it looks good at the time, and subsequently when the promise fails there is the excuse that progress is being made ('at pace' is often thrown in because that also looks good), but that the failure was beyond the Government's control and anyway no one should have taken the promise literally.
What's in a word, or two or three? Lawyers for Luke Littler (don't you love the alliteration), having trademarked 'the Nuke', 'Luke Littler', and 'Luke the Nuke Littler', have allegedly started action to prevent a bar opening in his home town of Warrington under the name 'Nukes Sports Bar'.
4th January. A weekend supplement promotes '24 easy ways to be healthier this year'. Another lifestyle piece suggests that if you are on a train and a child behind you repeatedly kicks the back of your seat, then you should not remonstrate but should meditate on your own childhood.
Enough.
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I can only reproduce verbatim this hilarious message via LinkedIn from Checkatrade:
'Fancy getting more local work?'