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I haven’t written a post on here since June 2nd. I’m not sure why but I think I just needed a break. I had begun to lose the plot and was starting to bore myself (and probably everyone else) with my own thoughts. After the much hyped election in May, I was, like so many […]

With just three days to go before we all (well those that can be bothered anyway) cast our crosses on the ballot sheets, I am, for the first time in my voting life, facing a major dilemma. Who the hell do I support? I have an irritating sense of sympathy for Gordon Brown of the […]

After four and a half hours of televised political debate by the leaders of the three main parties, I must confess, it was more appealing than I first thought. I am not sure I learnt anything I did not already know and no-one would admit the scale of the hardships we are about to experience […]

What sort of society have we become that we care more about preserving the anonymity of a convicted child killer than we do about the terrible act he committed against his victim? I am referring, of course, to an incident in 1993 when a two-year-old boy, Jamie Bulger, was taken from a northern shopping centre […]

What is going on? ITV has been showing the live football match between England and some foreign team for two and a half hours tonight and after just a half hour break for its News At Ten, it is now playing out the highlights of the same match. Do they think we are all suffering […]

It was with a great deal of sadness that I heard the news of the death of Michael Foot, a left-wing Labour party leader from an era when politicians had integrity and conviction and not the false facade of media training courses and spin. Mr Foot always reminded me of a crazy mad scientist with […]

According to a poll commissioned by BBC 2’s Daily Politics Show and released this afternoon, half of all voters think Labour would do better if Gordon Brown stepped down as leader. However, before we all get carried away by the excitement, a staggering 70 percent could not think of any of his colleagues who would […]

All those wasted years….from fumbling teenager to inadequate adult I (like many other men) have been searching for the holy grail, only to find it does not really exist. Just like my disappointment on hearing that Santa is an imaginary figure, that politicians never deliver what they promise, or bankers are just greedy twats, I […]

Following the failed xmas day plane bombing in the US, PM Gordon Brown has announced, today, that the full body scanner is to be introduced in all our airports. This controversial piece of machinery is said to show, on a screen, the parts of us that are only normally to be examined by members of […]

DSC00019.JPGOriginally uploaded by Westerly21 This sign was spotted on a table top in the bar of an hotel I stayed in near Lincoln UK. I am not sure what it means but it gave us something to talk about. Seems like we might need an anti-discrimination law to protect the rights of laptop users!!