Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up the Tabloids
‘At least Liz the Lettuce waited until she had been elected party leader before she pressed the self-destruct button’. I’m currently
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Vladimir McTavish
VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
A week is a long time in politics, as the old cliche goes. We never know what could be just around
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
By the time this column goes to press, the UK will have a new Prime Minister. Whoever that person may be,
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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids
When issued with a fixed penalty by the Metropolitan Police for breaking Covid rules, Boris Johnson said he was not going
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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up The Tabloids
Few have made the transition from COP to flop with such outstanding speed as Boris Johnson. He had, in the space
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
So, it would appear that Boris Johnson may have finally got his moment to be compared to Churchill. As the withdrawal
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
The problem with having to file copy over a week in advance of publication day means that sometimes what I write
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
As spring arrives and we slowly emerge from the winter lockdown, we appear to have entered some bizarre parallel universe where
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
In Britain, it is now a year since the Coronavirus pandemic reached our shores. And to mark the first anniversary of
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Kick UP THE TABLOIDS
VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS Despite starting the year under lockdown, and despite the disaster that is Brexit
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
We have now reached the beginning of the last two months of 2020. The world, at least my admittedly fairly unimportant
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Normally, writing the September edition of this column would be a flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants affair as I would be having to file my
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Twelve weeks into lockdown, and our through-the-looking-glass ‘new normal’ becomes ever more bizarre. While everyone’s lives seem identical from one week
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH – A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
This is, indeed, a strange time that we are living through. At the end of last year, when we all were
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S ‘A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS’
Early March 2020, Australia. We are now in the third month of the year of 2020, and it is fairly safe
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S KICK UP THE TABLOIDS January 2020
As the bells rang in the New Year and 2019 drew to a close, many on the left were still in
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Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
We live in such volatile times that it is distinctly possible that every word of this column will be either irrelevant
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Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
Seldom in recent memory has there been a bigger disconnect between voters and their elected politicians than the current contest to
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Vladimir McTavish’s A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
In 1999, many people were sceptical about the effect the new Parliament would have on the everyday life of ordinary people
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VLADIMIR McTAVISH’S A KICK UP THE TABLOIDS
I’m writing this from South Australia, where I’m performing for a month. Despite the country’s close cultural links to Britain, television
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