Author name: David Parkin

David Parkin on Ol’ Blue Eyes and getting a black eye from readers

REGULAR readers of this blog will have deduced that my taste in music is rather “retro”. In fact I don’t like anything that was recorded post circa 1963. Actually, that’s a lie. There have been a few modern classics that have piqued my interest in recent years by all time classic artists such as Atomic […]

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David Parkin on being a retiring individual

IT was only a matter of time. Bodybuilding legend, huge Hollywood film star and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledging the man who made him what he is today. I’m indebted to Huddersfield entrepreneur Andy Needham (who, like Arnold, is an imposing man of sculpted physique) for sending over the image above. Actually it’s

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David Parkin would prefer a perma-tan to a permacrisis

DO you know which word was picked as the word of the year for 2022? ‘Permacrisis’. Yes, according to Collins Dictionary, permacrisis – a word describing the feeling of living through a period of war, inflation and political instability – was its word of the year. That was highlighted by Louise Vaughan, one of the

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David Parkin on chipping in to cross the deep blue sea

AS challenges go, it is likely to be slightly harder than completing a leisurely round of golf. Golfing pals David Knaggs and Richard Larking have set themselves the formidable goal of rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. It hasn’t been dubbed “the World’s Toughest Row” for nothing. David and Richard, two Leeds-based lawyers who were introduced

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David Parkin on a plucky underdog with a point to prove

“I FELT I had to do this because shouting at the telly every night didn’t seem to work.” That’s how businessman Nick Palmer explains his decision to stand as an independent candidate in next week’s by-election in Selby and Ainsty. The vote was triggered when the constituency’s Conservative MP Nigel Adams, a Boris Johnson loyalist,

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