Category Archives: Comment

Coronavirus Lockdown Day #16

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Moorendman

Life is now moving at a slower pace, there is more time to do things, even restart my blog! Opinion Today’s Times featured an article by Hugo Rifkind exploring the idea that it cannot be easy being in Government at … Continue reading →

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Christmas Quiz 2017

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Moorendman

Afternoon all, our Arden Arms Christmas lunch is very late this year taking place only 2 days before the day itself. As ever, eight of us meet at 2 pm to enjoy a good meal and a good few drinks. … Continue reading →

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Ghost of Christmas Present

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Moorendman

Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense … Continue reading →

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Free Christmas Quiz Collection

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Moorendman

For the last six years, I have created a quiz for a group of friends who meet for a long and somewhat liquid lunch in The Arden Arms in Stockport. Our lunch is late this year taking place on Saturday … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Moorendman

Over fifty years ago now, Christmas in the Sixties was so different. Many families lived much closer together, horizons were narrower. Where we lived in Lower Crumpsall, the centre of Manchester was 3 miles to the south and seemed a … Continue reading →

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To Theresa, with hindsight and Scott Gronmark

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Moorendman

This is shamelessly cut and pasted from another political blogger but he articulates it so much better than I ever could: (1) If you’re going to run a personality-based campaign, first check to make sure that you have a discernible … Continue reading →

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2017 Election Hazel Grove Constituency Prediction

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Moorendman

In 2015 I accurately forecast the result of the Hazel Grove seat in the General election. At the time I went in to some detail about how I thought the election campaigns had gone and what the likely factors were. … Continue reading →

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Corbyn does not support terrorism – discuss

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Moorendman

Just over one day to go in this Election campaign and whilst all parties would prefer it not to be such an issue for varying reasons, the inevitable consequence of the dreadful bombing of innocents in Manchester and the butchery … Continue reading →

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Corbyn is a good man, an honest man…discuss.

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Moorendman

Think forward 20 years, could you elect a person who openly supported islamic extremists and their cause? Who you knew had refused to condemn them even though they had just murdered 22 people in your city? This is an interesting … Continue reading →

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Christmas Quiz 2016

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Moorendman

How soon it all comes round again! For the fourteenth year in a row we are joining a group of increasingly decrepit friends for our annual Christmas Lunch at the Arden Arms in Stockport. I wonder how many of us … Continue reading →

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