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Hug a Squaddie

Funny isn't it. I mean funny in the way that cancers funny or that Josef Fritzl was funny. But isn't it funny that each year at the 11th hour of the 11th day we should be led through a state sponsored minute of remembrance for the dead. I mean a whole minute - are you sure? Pathetic really given that even Danni Minogue occupies more of our collective consciousness and screen time than our politicians choreographed  60 seconds of moist eyed nostalgia for war. Don't get me wrong, it is of cour...

That 40’s speach again in full

So my surprise fortieth birthday was a tremendous affair and shame on you for not being there if you weren't and double shame on you if you were. Anyway this isn't facebook so there are no hilarious photos of me in a hat and besides which there were way too many of you present to make any meaningful fatuous or sarcastic comments about the event. What I do offer instead is the transcript of a  speech that I had planned to deliver. I had hotly anticipated a chorus of "Speech Speech Speech" after I...