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HERE’S Frankly Fraser for the week beginning May 30th, 2011. A FRIEND of mine once asked a surgeon what he earned. The surgeon named a figure somewhere approaching the Wayne Rooney bracket. “Good grief!”, said my friend, astonished. “I work damned hard for it,” said the surgeon, defensively. Shaking his head, my friend said: “My […]

HERE’S Frankly Fraser for the week beginning May 23rd, 2011. HOW nice to hear from so many people after this column made its debut as a website-only delight last week, shorn of the space it has occupied in the Cornish Guardian all these years. Old friends and colleagues, and new, took the trouble to comment […]

Here’s Frankly Fraser for the week beginning May 16th, 2011. IT’S always interested me that the Conservatives get away with painting themselves as ye party of olde Englande, preserving our ancient values, while flagrantly setting about the destruction of so much that contributes to the chocolate-box image they use in their political advertising. Now it’s […]

Here’s Frankly Fraser for the week beginning May 9, 2011. This column was due to be the last to appear in the Cornish Guardian in the issue of May 11th, but was temporarily delayed.  An edited version appears in the paper of May 18th 2011. YOU find me this week in a field where few […]

Here’s Frankly Fraser for the week beginning May 2nd, 2011. This column also appears in the Cornish Guardian of May 4th, 2011. SO tomorrow you can choose: to elect our MPs, do we stick with our existing system or do we change to the alternative vote, where you can rank candidates in order of preference? […]