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Will I End Up Playing Bowls?
Make no bones about it, my moderate sporting prowess is beginning its descent into obscurity and whilst at times it can be a source of great entertainment on social media, it does make me miserable as well. To say my start to the cricket season has been a desperate one, is an understatement, and with scores of 3, 2 (NOT OUT) 0 and 4, my average stands at paltry 3. ...
Remembering the Russians – West We Forget
When I was at school, modern history was one the few things that really interested me really. I was respectably good at English, art and geography, mediocre at religious education, biology and home economics (though I made a mean fruit salad) and unspeakably bad at mathematics, technical drawing, chemistry and physics. In fact I was so bad at maths and the ...
Fear and a Scottish Rebellion Spark a Conservative Victory!
Here is a line direct from my pre-election post on Tuesday: "Partly because of greed and partly because of fear created in the press, by Thursday, I guarantee that the electorate will sway to the perceived safety of our masters in the Conservative Party because, by nature, Britain is, in 2015, still addicted to serfdom." Sometimes it isn't so great being right, but ...
The Economy is Officially Boring Reading…
The other day I wrote a spoof post for the Daisy Cutter, an on-line football magazine, about Harry Redknapp jumping on the Bournemouth FC promotion wagon. The reaction to this was quite remarkable, with over two and a half thousand "likes" in response to it. This was the most publicity I have had regarding a post since I wrote something about Vladimir Putin and ...
Deficit Halved or Doubled..Who actually Knows?
Which one of you reading this blog post can really say you know how financial figures are assessed and calculated, and how much in real terms, our nation's debt is, and how much it is growing or indeed shrinking? We are told by one party that debt has halved and in the same instance informed by another it has doubled, leaving us all in a constant state of confusio...