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Miller Puts Basingstoke on the Map

There is an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity and if this is the case, the folk of my former home town should be grateful for the efforts of fraudster, Conservative MP, Maria Miller, for getting the town of Basingstoke on the national news. Miller: Crook To many people, the news of an MP stealing tax payers money is not nearly as ...

How Personalities Are Built – By Education?

I was having an email conversation with a friend the other day where I said that a school reunion had little meaning to me as I was completely indifferent to five years of my life in an education system that for one reason or another, I didn't respond to. His argument was that our schooling was what shaped us to being what we are now and that we all seem to be ...

Samurai Sword/White Stick for the Blind -Same Thing Really

I nearly had to laugh yesterday when I read about the case of Colin Farmer, a partially sighted man, recovering from a stroke who was taking a stroll to the pub for a pint. You see, it turns out that Mr Farmer, 63, was carrying out the offence of using a white stick that somehow (please don’t ask me how) looked like a samurai sword. So what did Mr Farmer ...

Jonathan Trott – Is He Really a Fake?

When I go out to bat when I am playing cricket, something strange happens to me. I can hear my own footsteps and literally feel the adrenalin going through my veins as my inner demons begin attacking my confidence from all directions. As I take my position at the crease, it is as though the world has stopped to watch me fail; even the birds seem to stop ...

A Tough Week for the Far Left!

It has been a tough week for the Far Left of the political spectrum these week, with the premature demise of Bob Crowe and the natural passing of Tony Benn, one of the great political heavyweights of Britain in the 20th century and a fantastic writer, orator and campaigner in the 21st century, right up until his passing. It's quite remarkable that Crowe, a ...