Minnie’s Musings
Random ramblings of a middle aged, middle class, middle income woman
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Or not? I am minded to rise and do something useful. I am also minded to stay in bed and listen to Broadcasting House. Informative discussion on Ukraine. Do like Steve Rosenberg. He plays the piano rather well. Jeremy Bowen is also there, selecting his clip of seminal moments. In this war of existential aggression.…
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So says one’s Best Beloved (BB). We have been debating the implications of America’s big idea for ending the war in Ukraine. Which has been set according to an American deadline governed by an American holiday, brokered by an American posse with no regard for anyone’s opinion who is not American or America’s new best…
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Apparently. As some Scottish bloke lobbed the Danish goal keeper securing a spot in the World Cup for our kilted cousins. Yay! The British Geological Survey has announced that the celebrations rocked the ground to the extent that a very small earthquake ensued. Heaven knows what seismic event would ensue were they to get beyond…
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Teachers and school children across the South East got terribly excited for roughly one hour yesterday morning as a blizzard engulfed the Home Counties and telephone trees got ready to ring into action. And then the fat, fluffy flakes (alliteration there) turned to half hearted rain and hope faded. Not a snowball in sight by…
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Whatever happened over the Panorama programme, the BBC will remain (probably) the most trusted news outlet globally. The World Service and the 24 hour news service are two of our most valuable soft diplomacy assets.. Attacking it – and drawing everyone’s attention back to just how close you came to inciting insurrection on January 6th…
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Donald Trump (DT) loves to distract attention from negative news stories. The current hop-hah over BBC splicing is a neat distraction on this side of The Pond from guess what? The Epstein Files. If there was anything good in those files about DT, he and his people would not have spent so much time and…
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Glen Powell in Running Man. My new not-so-secret thumping crush. Well not that new. Thumping crush developed in Guernsey Literary Potato Peal thing (though leading man gave him run for money). And got a big boost the Maverick. Bad haircut in Hitman was a blip, but nope, he is here to stay. He has the…
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Feminist ire has been piqued by FB post on the origins of the term “mansplaining” (after a seminal author had her own book explained to her by a man who continued to pontificate after being advised that he was lecturing the author herself). I am starting a campaign to term any historical account or discussion…
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And govern, please. The latest bout of infighting, briefing, rumour mongering etc etc that has yet again engulfed the Labour Party is way too reminiscent of the Tories during the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak years. Heads need to be cracked together at Millbank (Labour Party HQ). And in Downing Street, knuckles wrapped, send to…
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The fizzing wrath of BBC News bods continues apace as Justin Webb positively spits out a request for someone senior to come out and defend the corporation on the Today programme. (Spot the person having a cup of tea while playing Spider Solitaire, in bed, with the cat). Meanwhile DT is now declaring that he…
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