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Stay alert… to Boris Johnson’s messaging

May 10, 2020by Lee Turnpenny 1 Comment

We were ordered, with prohibitive red, to STAY HOME. The noun ‘home’ provides clarity – what else can it mean? Stay put in the security of your own space in […]

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The expectation of Boris Johnson (A take on a Spanish take)

May 5, 2020by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

As Spain cautiously goes about easing its lockdown, and could last weekend report that its Covid-19 daily death rate has fallen to its lowest since the 18th of March, EL […]

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The integrity of David Cameron concerning the integrity of Boris Johnson

April 17, 2020by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

How I imagine David Cameron must have preened when ITV News sought his opinion concerning Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation. That the media considers what The Blue Spectre has to say worthwhile […]

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Cameron’s Fitful Fever

April 3, 2020by Lee Turnpenny 2 Comments

I generally and genuinely admire politicians of whatever political hue, believing that many, if not the majority, enter politics with a genuine desire to work for the public good. Or […]

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Is your MP representing you?

January 8, 2019by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

Dear [MP], I write concerning the situation as has developed concerning so-called ‘Brexit’. Specifically, I would like to put to you a series of questions. Before the 2016 Referendum on […]

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Promoting quackery in Parliament: debating Tredinnick

November 25, 2014by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

When Dennis Skinner made the news bulletins last Friday for his apposite swipe at the Tory-UKIP curs Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell, what wasn’t made so apparent was the context in […]

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Questioning Tredinnick

June 19, 2014by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

Recently (10th June) in Parliament, during an Oral Answers to Questions — Health session, the bumbling humbugger, considering discussion of Accident and Emergency Units prime opportunity to interject some pseudoscience […]

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Baroness Warsi: political patsy?

November 15, 2013by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

You can’t keep a good zombie argument down, it seems. The grandiosely but confusingly titled Baroness Warsi, ‘Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for […]

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