Whenever someone asks me how I've managed to write this column twice a week when there's nothing new in the world, I reply, honestly: I put on The Kinks and start typing.
Whenever someone asks me how I've managed to write this column twice a week when there's nothing new in the world and we're all going to hell in a handcart, I reply, honestly: I put on The Kinks and start typing.
Those of us who were around at the time tend to recall that summer as an uninterrupted idyll of glorious weather, of England winning the World Cup, mini-skirts, Swinging London, Carnaby Street and Dedicated Followers Of Fashion. Yes, Starmergeddon isn't the most enticing prospect. Sky-high taxes, self-righteous Lefties lecturing us morning, noon and night.
OK, so we're going to get clobbered by the taxman. But that will happen no matter who wins — the election, not the Euros, that is. And no one, not even Starmer, is proposing to put up taxes to 95p in the pound.Yes, Starmergeddon isn't the most enticing prospect. Sky-high taxes, self-righteous Lefties lecturing us morning, noon and night, writes Littlejohn
We're having a heatwave and Martha Reeves and the Vandals are heading to the Treasury. We might as well lie back and think of England.So chin up, chaps, and count your blessings. The taxman might be taking all our dough, but we've still got this Sunny Afternoon — and they haven't worked out a way to tax that just yet.
He wasn’t in any way like the unionised British Leyland toolmakers who brought the company to a standstill when they walked out in 1978. Trust me, I was there. Starmer also pretends to be a Swiftie. Give me strength. I wouldn’t know a Taylor Swift song if it turned up on Ken Bruce, which it probably won’t with any luck. Don’t suppose Starmer does, either, given that he’s 61, going on 90.
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