Author Archives: odeboyz

Protect the NHS

Posted on September 15, 2022 by odeboyz
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A scene from ‘The Likely Lads’

Posted on September 15, 2022 by odeboyz

Bob: When it comes to women you’re hardly Omar Sharif. Terry: If Omar Sharif lived in Gateshead I doubt he’d be Omar Sharif. A TV show set in north-east Britain of two working-class men

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Hitler copied the USA’s segregation policies…and then some

Posted on September 12, 2022 by odeboyz

‘Segregation Forever’ documents the legal establishment of a racial purity regime as strict as any of its 20th-century European competitors. North Carolina required not only separate schools for black and white children but segregation of textbooks (‘Books shall not be … Continue reading →

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Liz Truss: ‘Shirkers and Strivers’ part 2: Cabinet 2022

Posted on September 12, 2022 by odeboyz

The UK “rewards laziness”, does not encourage risk-taking and must strive to emulate the work ethic and low-tax culture in parts of Asia, the five MPs argue in a book due out next month. The authors include Elizabeth Truss and … Continue reading →

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Why diets fail……

Posted on September 8, 2022 by odeboyz

I say: “I’m going on a diet.” And my stomach laughs

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Georges Simenon, author and sex addict

Posted on September 8, 2022 by odeboyz

“Simenon famously claimed to have had sex with 10,000 women, and was equally famously corrected by his estranged second wife, who claimed the real figure was 1200. She had good data. When they lived in the US, Denise and Georges would … Continue reading →

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Frank Sinatra’s fight against racism

Posted on September 5, 2022 by odeboyz

Sometime in the late 40s, before either man was famous, Frank Sinatra appeared in a theater in New York. After his show he went to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio led by a young Sammy Davis Jr. Frank … Continue reading →

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An Awe-Inspiring Tudor Church: Lavenham, Suffolk

Posted on September 5, 2022 by odeboyz

All the people you live among will see the Lord’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring. Exodus 34:10 Lavenham church was completed in 1525 immediately before the religious upheavals of the 16th century.1 As a parish … Continue reading →

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Two of Putin’s judges nearly share a joke

Posted on September 1, 2022 by odeboyz

Two judges meet outside a courtroom. One’s laughing out loud.‘Why are you laughing?’‘I just heard the funniest joke ever!’‘Tell me!’‘I can’t. I just sentenced a man to ten years for telling it.’

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Book Review: Jussi Alder-Olsen ~ Redemption (2013) (Translator Martin Aitken)

Posted on September 1, 2022 by odeboyz

Redemption is the third in the series of Department Q novels which centre on Danish detective Carl Morck and his assistant Assad. So far so trivial. But! This is a scandi-noir novel of the highest quality. It’s brilliantly written with … Continue reading →

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