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British Sport and Conservative Pragmatism!
I stayed up late on Tuesday night to watch the England Women take on and eventually beat Norway at the Women's World Cup in Canada. I would like to say that this was an act of right-on feminism of a man steeped in post-modern culture but the truth is, there was not much else on and it has to be said that I am the type of guy who, if England were competing in the ...
Americans and Their Supermarket Bullets Again!
Amongst the things I find most fascinating about social media are the "Spotted" Facebook pages where people make others in their community aware of events going on and things or people that are potentially suspicious. I read something the other day on a "Spotted" site that went something like this. "I saw a man in a blue shirt coming out of some bushes by the ...
Sedentary Brits Doing Less and Less Sport!
I was at my cricket club meeting the other day and the subject of an alarming decrease in youth participation came up on the agenda. When you are a member of a sports club, you get drawn in to the illusion that because you participate, everyone else does, so you can imagine my surprise to discover that cricket is 17th on the list of participating sports in the ...
Does Charles Kennedy’s Death Expose a Nation of Alcoholics?
The sad death of Charles Kennedy last week has continually been linked to his battle with alcoholism, which ultimately paid some sort of part in his passing, during what only five months in, was already a year to forget after the loss of his father and his seat in parliament in a matter of a month. It is quite bizarre that when you hear people in public saying he ...
Escape to Brighton!
I felt I needed to disappear at the weekend as I had got to that stage where I just needed a break from work, cricket and Facebook posts that say "re-post if your dad was a hard working man" or "Re-post if you remember when it was cool to eat Spangles, own a Rubik's Cube and get your anus traumatised by a BBC TV Presenter." The great irony with the people who ...