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Kingdom rose from the sea
I OFTEN think this country is rather odd, and that it would be far better if I got to rule it. But what if there was a land I could rule? Now there is: Petieania has risen from the sea!
Last updated 10 May 2013
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We must work to increase turnout
WITH our hospital services facing cuts of £25m and the Conservative-led government giving tax breaks to millionaires while ordinary people struggle, voters sent a strong message by electing Labour candidates in 10 out of the 11 Barrow borough seats in last week’s Cumbria County Council elections. (2 comments)
Last updated 9 May 2013
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It’s time to stop sugaring the pill
THE new series of The Apprentice starts this week. And I’ll be glued to my telly, as this year’s batch of egocentric buffoons attempts to persuade us viewers – and more importantly Lord Sugar – that they are business tycoons in the making.
Last updated 8 May 2013
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Today we’ll talk about the weather
AS I write, I am sitting in the office, on what is shaping up to be a lovely sunny bank holiday Monday.
Last updated 7 May 2013
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Apathy not just a voter problem
BY the time this hits print, the county council elections will be done and dusted, the winners and losers announced and the new council will be ready to start business.
Last updated 6 May 2013
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So much time doing nothing
STARING at one of those spinning images on my computer screen, whilst something was loading (or was it? You’re never really sure, are you?), I started pondering how much of my life I’d spent doing just that. And it got me thinking.
Last updated 3 May 2013
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Only one way to have your say
AS you must be aware by now, not least because I have mentioned it here but also because of the numbers of leaflets I am sure you have received, the posters in people’s gardens and the talk about it in the media, today is election day. (1 comment)
Last updated 2 May 2013
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Grotty Ulverston remark is sadly no surprise
AS a born and bred Ulverstonian, I was shocked – shocked, I tell you – when I read that a district councillor has described my dear old home town as “grotty”. (14 comments)
Last updated 1 May 2013
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Too high a price for cheap fashion
THE pursuit of Primark for struggling shopping centres has persisted for so long now, it has grown into a standing joke – symbolic of grasping in panic at economic straws of hope.
Last updated 30 April 2013
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Some sympathy for Barrow hospital trust
DESPITE being a campaigner for the retention of hospital services in the Furness area, I do have great sympathy with the predicament that the UHMBT senior management find themselves in. (1 comment)
Last updated 29 April 2013
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Time travel has a few problems
MUCH like Doctor Who, I am able to travel in time... but only backwards. And only by an hour. And I don’t have a glamorous assistant. Other than that, it’s exactly the same.
Last updated 26 April 2013
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Being there and missing everything
AS an example of pitch-perfect ceremonial splendour, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral showed off Britain at her best. (4 comments)
Last updated 24 April 2013
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Stuck with problem we didn’t even want
IT was bound to happen – everyone knew it. The surprise was that it happened so soon – with such spectacular ineptitude. (1 comment)
Last updated 23 April 2013
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So now informing public is a crime?
I FEEL as though I should be treading very, very carefully writing this week’s column. (2 comments)
Last updated 22 April 2013
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School trip vision totes amazeballs
MONDAY (sponsored by Coke) March 15th, 2053. Dear KindleDiary – today we visited the “High Street”, which was like, totes amazeballs, as I haven’t left the house since Googleuary!
Last updated 22 April 2013
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Time to pay up for fashion flops
AN etiquette expert has suggested this week that fines should be imposed for a variety of sartorial “crimes”.
Last updated 22 April 2013
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Cash for sport is true legacy
AS we stood by the side of the road in the pouring rain last June cheering the Olympic Torch on its journey through Cumbria I think it is fair to say we weren’t thinking much beyond how we could get a cup of tea and into some dry clothes.
Last updated 22 April 2013
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Good old books are way forward
LIKE most people, I’ve drifted a bit of late. Not so far as some but there’s been a discernible drift nonetheless.
Last updated 22 April 2013
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Sweet tweets on Margaret Thatcher’s death
MONDAY lunchtime was fairly usual – eat tiny salad out of plastic box (pining for the days when it was cake instead), look out of window, surf the web. Then Twitter told me Margaret Thatcher had died.
Last updated 12 April 2013
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Cumbria still bears scars of Thatcher
IN death, as in life, Margaret Thatcher has sharply divided opinions here and up and down the country. (7 comments)
Last updated 11 April 2013
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