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September 2022
THE END OF AN ERA
In 3 months, at the end of 2022, The Ericle website will officially close down.
However, nil desperandum, The Ericle will live on as an email publication. So, if you are reading this … Read more...
August 2022
BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
With the prospect of setting fire to the furniture this winter in order to keep warm, the above … Read more...
July 2022
IT’S THE SILLY SEASON!
This time of the year used to be known as The Silly Season as everybody, including the politicians, went off on their holidays leaving the news media with pages to fill and precious little to fill … Read more...
Posted in Autobiographical, History, Sport, UK
Tagged Cycling, Ericle, Macmillan Cancer
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Boris Resignation: An Ericle Special.
Posted in Humour, Politics, UK
Tagged Boris Johnson
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June 2022
A decade ago, I posted the above placeholder onto the webpage of my newly acquired domain www.theericle.com. To be brutally honest, I had no real ambitions for The Ericle beyond it possibly becoming an e-substitute for the autobiography that … Read more...
May 2022
Long suffering Ericle readers will have noted my occasional references to The Slog, (see: here), a long-running blog written by a former agency colleague of mine. The Slog’s strapline describes its author as being a cognitive dissident; which, … Read more...
Posted in Comment, International, Politics, Sport, UK
Tagged Cycling, UK Politics, Ukraine
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April 2020
Letter From America
My Readers, of a certain age and background, will recall Alastair Cook’s Letter From America; a regular feature of the BBC Home Service, (Radio 4 from 30/9/67), from 1946 to 2002. Wikipedia informs that there were … Read more...
March 2022
DISASTER
The Ericle was born in 1949, the son and 1st child of refugees who fled to the UK from Hitler in 1939. As such my life has spanned a period of peace between the end of World War II … Read more...
Posted in International, Politics, The Ericle Has Spoken
Tagged Comment, Society
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October/November 2022
Embracing The Third Age
These days, I spend a great deal of my week on activities organised by The University Of The Third Age (U3A). There are no age parameters to the U3A – the Third Age being defined as … Read more...