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Goodbye Twitter. RIP. You are now X Twitter. I’ll miss you. Honest injun.
Opposite is my final tweet after many years. Posted a couple of weeks ago. And as usual, apart from from one or two old friends, it didn’t attract much attention – at least not in the few hours before I worked out how to delete my account. (You ‘deactivate’ it and it is wiped clean, so it says, a month later. Phutt…)
So if any of the 332 ‘followers’ I somehow built up over the years have found their way to this humble blog then welcome indeed. I will try to remember to ‘enable comments’ when I write these things so that we can chat about them Sometimes. Perhaps. If you want to.
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The importance of being honest.
My teenage grandson called me 10 days ago saying he wanted to talk about the BBC relay of Prime Minister’s Questions that he had been watching earlier (at school – don’t ask, but he is doing Politics and Ethics).
He wanted to discuss the matter of our nation’s Prime Minister lying through his teeth. Again.
So, after we’d growled together about that for a bit, I asked him, hoping it didn’t sound patronising, or grand-patronising, whether he thought this behaviour was setting a terrible example to young people,
Yes, yes, exactly. Absolutely. And what’s more – and to me even more importantly – he absolutely agreed that the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, across the House from Johnson, was a patently honest man.
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Generally Speaking 