There are those who questioned my motives, and indeed sanity, in staging a free night out for Grantham folk at the Guildhall theatre.
Of all the TV programmes and documentaries commemorating the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s tragic death, the one which moved me most was the Sunday ‘Songs of Praise’ tribute.
Congratulations to all those young people who got the exam grades they wanted.
During my long and varied lifetime, I thought I had witnessed the worst kinds of mental and physical abuse inflicted. But the recent extra suffering Stephen Hawking has had to endure is beyond my comprehension.
One of my former colleagues once told me a politician friend of his used to claim that if you persisted with a lie long enough people would accept it as the truth.
Forty-odd years ago, two American girls who stayed with us in Grantham on an exchange visit cried when the time came to go home.
Criminal!
All around Grantham, people are being kept awake night after night by what used to be called ‘boy racers’.
My wife and I are so ashamed of those people who want to ban US President Donald Trump from making a state visit to this country that we have decided to issue an invitation of our own.
Whatever the outcome of the general election and the best efforts of the organisers of the so-called hustings in St Wulfram’s Church, the fact remains that a large part of the Grantham and Stamford constituency voters were effectively disenfranchised.
Maggie Thatcher was famous for her ‘U-turn, the lady’s not for turning,” comments, but if the present government doesn’t soon get something right first time, it will end up renowned for exactly the opposite reason.
As usual, whenever a strike causes widespread disruption as the junior doctors’ action does, we tend to conveniently forget that, like the tango, it takes two to make it happen.
Brace yourself for the worst Grantham and all other communities in our beleaguered country, if the government continues with its current policies of austerity, privatisation and inward investment.
Ever since the Tories hijacked Labour’s basically honest but misguided policy of converting state schools into academies, I have been suspicious of the government’s motives.
Almost every day now we hear of more people being criticised, losing their jobs and even prosecuted for allegedly harmful comments of a racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic or other politically incorrect nature.
“The NHS is safe in our hands.” A pledge used by the Tories to help them win several general elections, but now exposed as what appears to be a blatant lie.
Everyone is entitled to have dreams, but nowadays as often in the past, not everyone is privileged enough to have them come true.
Vandalism has reared its brainless head again in Grantham, I see.
Confusion apparently reigns supreme among Grantham people wondering which way to vote in the forthcoming EU referendum.
Where has all the glamour gone in Grantham nowadays? That’s my big question this week.
