Author Archives: Hortoris

Titter and Twitter Ye Not

‘Why not settle all outstanding payments for Windrush, Post Office and Infected Blood scandals immediately. It would save a lot of unnecessary cost and pain (except for Lawyers).’  Why do independent public statutory Inquiry’s take so long and settlements become … Continue reading

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MPs We Voted In

To calm the Rwanda crisis  down we need an anti-inflamaTory? Chance would be a fine thing. Yorkshire return 54 members of Parliament  and unless there have been any ‘overnight’ changes to party allegiances 24 are represented by Conservative MPs and … Continue reading

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Shout-Out for Towns of Yorkshire

A shout out should draw critical attention to someone’s unacceptable actions or behaviour.  At God’s Own County Yorkshire’s version we want to hold someone accountable for failure to acknowledge, promote and support our great towns. We don’t need regional mayors … Continue reading

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Global Yorkshire

Global HQ In Yorkshire we don’t give false praise or butter up the none believers. Take us as you find us in God’s Own County. On the Global Web Our reputation and international presence goes before us but Yorkshire folk … Continue reading

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Gaudi In Yorkshire

Earlier this year GOC threatened to start a series of chimney photographs. Little did we know that Antoni Gaudi the Spanish designer and architect had left his mark on Yorkshire with his chimneys.We didn’t know because in all probability he … Continue reading

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Nostalgia is Bigger Than It Used To Be

Can you remember nostalgia or do you need a reminder of childhood, music, TV and past times…. Continue reading

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Identity Politics None Woke Version

What \can Sigmund Freud Teach Our Politicians The id is the unconscious primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives etc. Many politicians spring to mind if you consider this. The super-ego brings lots more … Continue reading

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Self Identification as a Tyke

It will not come as a surprise that I identify as a Tyke and always have done. From mothers milk, with no foreign formulas, through trusted Yorkshire tea and Tetley’s, I was a proper baby Tyke. I graduated at an … Continue reading

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Commission Police Commissioners,

The New English Dictionary has many definitions for ‘commission’ but number 5 on page 271 states . ‘ an act of committing something: the commission of a crime.’  So have I stumbled on the Yorkshire comma.  Are we to have … Continue reading

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Politicians Know No Boundaries

Revised Yorkshire Parliamentary Boundaries We are overdue for a rebalancing of parliamentary constituencies to relate more closely to current and anticipated populations. The last changes for England & Wales was in  2010 so about 8 years late (normal for the … Continue reading

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