Author Archives: odeboyz

Jay Rayner Reviews Tapas 37

Posted on November 22, 2016 by odeboyz

“Personally, I can’t help but fantasise about how much better a day it would have been for all involved, had the fire alarm been real…I wouldn’t wish a fire on anybody’s business. But at least if we’d been evacuated by … Continue reading →

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The Double V Campaign: The struggle for racial equality in the US Armed Forces in the Second World War

Posted on November 17, 2016 by odeboyz

The festering sore that was American segregation became a burning issue after Hitler’s declaration of war (11th December 1941). The world’s worse racist state declared war on a country which enshrined segregation. America’s non-white soldiers were officially second class citizens. … Continue reading →

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My Romantic Parents

Posted on November 15, 2016 by odeboyz

My mother wrote this on her 80th birthday. I find it both poignant and romantic and twenty-five years later it is still a powerful statement. Chris

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The Varian Law (economics for consumers)

Posted on November 15, 2016 by odeboyz

The Varian Law says that you can forecast the future by looking at what the rich have today — that is, that what affluent people will want in the future is, in general, something like what only the truly rich … Continue reading →

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A lesson too late for the learning

Posted on November 11, 2016 by odeboyz

The majority of our largely put upon poor residents of the country swallowed a pack of lies over “Brexit” perpetrated by some very prominent (albeit delusional) politicians. They included Johnson, Gove, Davis, and let us not forget those other two … Continue reading →

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Heaven and the engaged couple

Posted on November 8, 2016 by odeboyz

After a tragic accident an engaged couple find themselves in Heaven. Jill I still want to get married you know. John Well this has to be the right place. It’s Heaven after all. Jill I’ll ask the gatekeeper to find a … Continue reading →

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“He’s Got an OLOGY” (Maureen Lipman)

Posted on November 7, 2016 by odeboyz

What a great TV advert Beatie, a Jewish Grandma asked her Grandson How did your exams go? The boy replied, “I got a ‘C’ in Biology.” Like every Jewish Grandma She, beams at the camera “He’s got an Ology” Tantamount … Continue reading →

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Gradgrind and the problem of legless horses

Posted on November 4, 2016 by odeboyz

Gradgrind came to epitomise Victorian school teachers. Victorian school teachers were sharply focused on facts. Facts appeared to offer certainty and, even better, they could be tested. A pupil repeating the facts that they’d learned was a good pupil. There’s … Continue reading →

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Why Donald Trump is popular: he spends his own money!

Posted on November 1, 2016 by odeboyz

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is our great teacher in this: He and his allies vastly outspent Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but he won only three delegates to Trump’s 1725. As The Post pointed out, Bush could have … Continue reading →

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The UK’s Brexit strategy

Posted on November 1, 2016 by odeboyz

Buy British or die, Johnny Foreigner (© Liam Fox) Chris

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