HOLMSEY: ‘Suits you, Sir!’
Isle of Wight ObserverI bought my first suit from a Freemans’ catalogue. It cost just 50 pence a week for 26 weeks. The…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Acceptance can be tough!
Do people often interrupt you mid-flow and say, “You’ve already told me that”? People often interrupt me mid-flow and say,…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: What do Oasis and our ferries have in common?
Nothing compares to Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band playing live, although the Jam’s equally exciting rock-‘n’-roll music was…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: You’re only young once in a lifetime!
Picking at spots, dreaming of girls, and – furtively – looking at top-shelf magazines in newsagents are things I remember…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Oops! I’ve done it again!
In April, on Friday 13, I was rushing around gathering building materials, because – unusually – my builder wanted an…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Blame the politicians
Two thirds of Brits say they can’t afford a foreign holiday this year. In theory, that should mean the Island…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Prices go up – get over it!
Robin Hill has a new owner, and, swiftly, the local rumour mill determined that, when it re-opens, admission would be…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: My plan to bring attention to our plight
Would you join me if I blockade one of the Island’s ferry ports? In my imagination, we drive a big…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Armageddon is coming
It’s not only ‘Just Stop Oil’ protestors who deserve lengthy jail sentences for wasting everyone’s time. I’d bang up a…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: I’m after a ‘new’ car!
I need to offload my car boot tale of woe, but first, we’ll discuss taxpayers’ remarkably-generous treatment of MPs ejected…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: The Island has spoken
Triumphalism is ugly and often backfires. I had the privilege of being at the count last Thursday, and, after the…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Why would we re-elect the Tories?
In the three years before we voted to leave the EU, nett migration totalled 836,000 people. In the three years…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: The Tories are toast
Winston Churchill wanted to fight them on the beaches, Rishi Sunak decided to leave them to it. “At the going…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Decline here and across the pond!
History shows that no civilisation lasts forever. Most end due to political weakness, turmoil and infighting – but enough about…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: The election’s underway!
Do you ever find yourself upstairs, wondering what it was you went up for? When going for groceries, do you…
Read MoreHOLMSEY: Life is short – make it interesting
Most of us feel we have only a handful of genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is just…
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