New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 25 September 2016

Good morning everyone.

It is almost October and already the nights are longer than the days, which is even now effecting my sleep pattern. Very soon now, the man with the "clock keys" will be creeping around in the middle of the night to tamper and interfere with the clock settings which will disrupt my sleep even more. Ever since I was a boy, I have been severely affected by dark winter nights which seem to start at around 4:00pm every day and continue till around 09:00 the next morning.

Altering the time on the clock only exacerbates the situation and I spend some 6 months feeling tired and irritable. I really wish that the "powers that be" would recognise that the winter solstice heralding shorter days is bad enough but at least we could dispense with the nonsense of changing the clocks twice every year.

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I have managed to avoid "Strictly Come Dancing" on television and also the considerable number of "reports" in the press and on television of the shenanigans on stage and behind the scenes concerning some contestants, or judges, or judges and contestants. Why this should be front page news in practically every newspaper and magazine is a constant mystery to me, particularly when the same "reports" but with the identity of the personality changed for this series, has been a constant feature of this programme ever since the format first came to our screens almost 50 years ago, (or so it seems).

I appreciate that this show gives pleasure to many people, but there must surely come a time when high kicking women in questionable costumes, men carrying out the same dance routines as they always have, celebrities being insulted by Craig Revel Horwood and the inevitable speculation about which celebrity or even celebrities have become "an item" with their respective professional partners, become too predictable for even the most avid fan of this weekly extravaganza. Again, there are whispers that this may be the last series, We can only hope.

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Staying with television shows for just a moment, who would have believed that a simple cookery programme changing television channels (there are so many cookery programmes on our screens already anyway) would have caused such a furore in the press and quite probably in many homes around the country. I refer of course to "the Great British Bake Off" which is leaving BBC2 to go to Channel 4 and is taking Paul Hollywood with it. The other names associated with this show, "Mel"Giedroyc, Sue Perkins and Mary Berry are staying at the BBC amid rumours that a replacement show is being considered for that channel. The net result is that television gains another cookery programme!

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You may have noticed that there has been a ballot for election of the Labour party leader, and that delegates have now gathered in Liverpool for the party annual conference. This accounts for the rather short narrative here on this e-mail. I will no doubt have some remarks to make next week.

Still rather strange weather patters around the country. Perhaps the man who tampers with the clocks also interferes with the weather.

Have a nice week.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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