Jo Knowsley
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UK News
Change the past? Why don’t we focus on reinventing the future
History should be revised and revisited. How else do we learn from the past? But cancelling one thing in favour of another…
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COVID-19
To Vaccinate, or not to Vaccinate, that is the question
To Vaccinate, or not to Vaccinate. That is the question that has bedevilled a significant minority of the globe since…
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Arts
The branding that doesn’t wash off…
These nouveau pieces of ‘art’ look like they’ve been drawn helter-skelter, with no rhyme or reason, by the scratchy ball-point…
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UK News
Is this goodbye to freedom?
Never mistake this Wokeness and our raft of new Rules as a new, liberal, fuzzily-warm, left-leaning democracy. It is not.…
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UK News
On your bike…or ‘get off our pavements’
It’s a peculiarly British rebuke: ‘On yer bike’ – a rude but effective way of telling someone to ‘naff off’,…
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COVID-19
All clapped out?
It is now a year since we first stood outside our homes, clapping for carers and banging pots and pans…
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Travel
All hail a secret summer holiday
(with apologies and a tribute to C.S. Lewis) Health Secretary Matt Hancock has booked this year’s summer holidays to Cornwall…
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COVID-19
Who censors who?
Has fear of being branded a conspiracy theorist affected journalistic judgment when reporting on the coronavirus? We’re extraordinary beings, we…
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COVID-19
Journey to my mother
Finding things to do during the third lockdown has proven difficult… First I forensically cleaned the house; next I cooked…
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COVID-19
Welcome to the New Dark Ages
Welcome to the New Dark Ages: a time of chronic bleakness in what is already one of the gloomiest periods…
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