Here are the Blogs in the Mary Jackson category.
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
So farewell, then Peter
Sarstedt. “Where Do You
Go To (My Lovely)”. That was
Your song. So where
Did You Go To
My Lovely?
© E. J. Throbb, aged 17¾
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Posted on 02/14/2018 9:55 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
To paraphrase John Cleese’s harried headmaster in the film Clockwise, I could take the despair. It was the hope I couldn’t stand.
It was the evening of June 23, 2016 – yes, I know it’s been a long time since I posted – and I had gathered with a small group of those rare birds, North London Brexiteers, for ...Read More...
Posted on 02/14/2018 9:40 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 26 March 2016
Remember the much ballyhooed Leytonstone Koranic expert, who shouted at a suspected terrorist during a stabbing at a tube station "You ain't no Muslim, bruv"? Because no true Muslim would kill anyone in the name of Allah, would they? From The Telegraph:
A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death by ...Read More...
Posted on 03/26/2016 11:21 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 26 March 2016
The first shall be last, said Jesus. He obviously hadn't checked his privilege. Michael Deacon in The Telegraph:
Good news and bad news for gay men. The good news is: congratulations! You are officially no longer oppressed.
The bad news is: you’re now the oppressors.
Or so I gather from the ...Read More...
Posted on 03/26/2016 9:29 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 26 March 2016
Many years ago, in the pre-satnav era, a colleague told me of his success in the Advanced Driving Test. As an "Advanced Motorist" he would be able to negotiate a discount on his car insurance. Did I fancy it? I asked what it entailed. "Finding your way to somewhere by following the road signs," he said. ...Read More...
Posted on 03/26/2016 8:53 AM by Mary Jackson
Saturday, 26 March 2016
From Charles Moore in this week's Spectator:
I have read a good many pieces by Labour supporters wringing their hands about Labour’s growing anti-semitism. Not one of them has contained the one word which is the key to this matter — Muslims.
Yup.
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Posted on 03/26/2016 8:44 AM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 14 March 2016
Boris, Brexiteer in Chief, takes issue with Obama, who would lump us in with the Remains. From The Telegraph:
In two global conflicts, and throughout the Cold War, the United States has fought for the founding ideals of the republic: that government of the people, by the people, for the people should ...Read More...
Posted on 03/14/2016 2:06 PM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
The Telegraph's Allison Pearson writes:
Anyone who has stopped to look at a carpet in Turkey knows how it goes. First, the crazy opening price. You shake your head and walk away. Ahmet coaxes you into his shop with smiles and voluble assurances: “Byooutiful lady, pliiss, I give you verrayy gud prayce!”
Then, ...Read More...
Posted on 03/08/2016 3:51 PM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 7 March 2016
What would they do without North Korean curtain and wall material?
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Posted on 03/07/2016 2:02 PM by Mary Jackson
Monday, 7 March 2016
Christopher Howse chews the [email protected] in today's Telegraph:
The most annoying department of arithmetic when I was a little boy was called practice. If I had known that practice had another meaning, “deception”, I would have found the name right and just, for the whole subject seemed to be trial and error ...Read More...
Posted on 03/07/2016 1:15 PM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 18 October 2015
David Thompson writes:
From the New York Times, Jennifer Medina on sex education for teenagers:
Consent from the person you are kissing — or more — is not merely silence or a lack of protest, Shafia Zaloom, a health educator at the Urban School of San Francisco, told the students. They listened ...Read More...
Posted on 10/18/2015 2:21 PM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Recently I asked after a friend's seventeen-year-old daughter. "Oh, she's gay again." "Again? You mean she was gay and went straight for a bit and thought better of it. So she's bisexual?" "No, it doesn't work like that anymore. Young people aren't one or the other or a bit of both like in our day. ...Read More...
Posted on 10/18/2015 8:30 AM by Mary Jackson
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Spare a thought for the suffering soldier of Allah. From The Telegraph:
A British jihadist with Isil has moaned that his Arab comrades are rude, do not know how to queue and eat like schoolchildren.
In a bizarre rant, Omar Hussain also complained that his fellow terrorists talk loudly when ...Read More...
Posted on 09/16/2015 4:38 AM by Mary Jackson
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Nobody could accuse the urbane, cultivated and mild-mannered Charles Moore of being extreme. His piece on Islam in The Telegraph is so gentle and understated, he should be re-christened "Charles Less", Still, some good points, and carries force because Moore has overcome an initial reluctance to see ...Read More...
Posted on 09/15/2015 5:26 AM by Mary Jackson
Sunday, 10 May 2015
A few days before the UK General Election, Ayann Hirsi Ali hoped for a Conservative victory. From The Times:
On Mr Cameron’s watch, websites promoting Islamic extremism have been targeted and hate preachers kept out or kicked out of the country. The charity commission has also been given new powers ...Read More...
Posted on 05/10/2015 7:57 AM by Mary Jackson
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