MANY folk rage at the power of corporations and their ever-increasing power over our lives. I’m one of them. But it doesn’t stop us being part of a corporation for almost the whole of our time here on earth. I’m part of that, too. Our problem is that we don’t know who or what we […]

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IMAGINE someone knocks on your door and offers you £15m for your home. Hands up all those who’d turn it down by insisting your property is only ‘worth’ £250,000, according to estate agents. Exactly! Now you know why BBC’s Mr Football Gary Lineker REALLY is worth £1.75m a year and why he pockets that monstrous […]

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WHEN the great Roger Federer won his eighth Wimbledon title on Sunday afternoon it was almost a case of last man standing. His final opponent Marin Cillic, physically and mentally hampered during the biggest match of his sporting life, revealed not only the blister on his foot but the distress he was feeling inside as […]

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SPOTTING an apparently homeless person begging in the town centre is always an uncomfortable experience. I admit I was slightly relieved yesterday when making my way back towards my car and there was no one camped on the ground in a particularly familiar spot. I deliberately wrote ‘apparently homeless’ in my introduction because, let’s face […]

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POLICE, responding immediately to the shooting of popular TV presenter Jill Dando on her Fulham doorstep in April 1999, labelled it a ‘senseless murder’. And so they were on the wrong track from day one. It would have been a ‘senseless’ crime if committed by Barry George, the loner with mental health problems, who served […]

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LISTENING to Radio 5 Live this morning, I could scarcely believe my ears. Conversation was flowing over an earlier radio interview with Prime Minister Theresa May, which I had missed. Various pundits seemed very impressed that Mrs May had apparently presented a different side to her character, including saying that she’d ‘shed a tear’ over […]

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“WHAT matters to you, folks?”   Grenfell Tower fire and what it means to our society. How can we avoid future terror attacks? Creating a more equal society. War and crisis in the Middle East and the need for world peace. Search for meaning and purpose in modern day life.   The hypnotist clicks his […]

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EARLIER this year the BBC broadcast a documentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Besides a few half-hearted attempts to goad incidental staff from the holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal, into adding to their police statements, they came up with nothing. We shouldn’t however have been surprised. For […]

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WHEN former DJ, champion fund raiser and all-round eccentric Jimmy Savile was dramatically exposed as a paedophile of horrific proportions five years ago, one main question was on the public’s lips. How did he get away with it for so long? ‘Sir’ Jimmy, his knighthood has never been revoked on the premise that it ceases […]

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SURPRISINGLY enough for a cricket fan of a certain age, yesterday was my first ever proper visit to Lord’s. I went on a tour of the ground, regarded by many as the ‘home of cricket’ many years ago, but had never seen a game there until the Royal London one day final between Notts and […]

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