Tag: lockdown
Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel: but...
Bernard Trafford reckons he cannot be the first person to use that metaphor with regard to the Covid pandemic. The current lockdown seems at...
The coming year: light beginning to dawn, or an extension of...
On New Year’s Eve Bernard Trafford was tickled by a bogus quote from Samuel Pepys’s diary doing the rounds on social media. But it also gave...
Ministers are floundering into exam chaos: but it’s candidates who’ll suffer
On 30th September I published a piece on Voice of the North about next year’s (summer 2021) public exams. I predicted that, notwithstanding their...
A level and GCSE exams won’t take place as “normal” in...
As one in six schools has year-groups sent home due to Covid outbreaks, and pupil progress is affected as a result, education bodies are...
My kitchen sink drama when BT’s repairs left me in the...
Kitchen sink drama or BT soap opera?
Kitchen sink drama or BT soap opera? COLIN WAKELING finds himself left in the lockdown lurch
I RECENTLY 'ENJOYED'...
Curious cacophony in Crookham as Banksy goes ballistic: a tall tale...
What was that curious cacophony in Crookham last weekend? Don’t worry: it was only Banksy going ballistic at government’s labyrinthine Cummings and goings!
Was I...
Will the virus kill off the local rag? On paper, possibly....
Coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of people and devastated the printed press. But could it kill off the true hyper-local media ? In...
BANKSY’S WEEK: What the actress said to the bishop. . ....
YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL where you sow your seed, as the actress said to the bishop. Particularly when it comes to dotting your...
Covid, confinement, questioning, conspiracy – and, er, nudity
Covid, confinement, questioning, conspiracy – and, er, nudity.
Back in the day, I was something of a conference tart. I’d accept invitations to speak on...
Lockdown school: keeping calm and carrying on at home
The elderly father-in-law of an old friend had an unfortunate habit of announcing in pubs, rather too loudly, “I was a grammar school headmaster,...
