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The Joy of Buying a Camera!
I bought a camera as a lockdown gift to myself recently. It is a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000. It was chosen after months of the type of middle-aged dithering I thought I would never suffer from. Impulse Purchasing As a man of impulse purchasing, I have almost made a career out of buying ill-advised clothes, gadgets, cars, and in one tragic case, a house ...
Race & Prejudice
I have been thinking a lot about racism and prejudice this week. I still don’t know enough about it to be anywhere near an expert. Still, I hope what I am about to write makes sense. The problem as I see it, is there are a lot of people who have convinced themselves they are not racists because they are fundamentally decent. They wouldn’t scream racial ...
Marcus Rashford and Food Vouchers
Old Boris Johnson seems to be making more U Turns than a knackered SatNav right now. The latest, under pressure from a footballer, being the extension into the summer that offers food vouchers for the poorest kids in society. Sport & Politics Of course, the government should be happy that a professional footballer is doing his bit for the Coronavirus. ...
Whataboutism
The term ‘Whataboutism’ is something that came to my attention the other day. I had sort of heard of it, but I didn’t really know it was a tool used as a way of deflecting guilt. Nazi Germany and the USSR Apparently, it was well used in Nazi Germany and Cold war Russia. Germany would defend putting Jews in camps, with other European countries doing the ...
Who Was Edward Colston?
Born in Bristol in 1636, Colston was an entrepreneur. As his fortune amassed, he gave handsome sums to churches, schools and other good causes and charities. However, Colston’s fortune was made from exploiting roughly 100,000 West Africans. Men, women, and children were taken and thrown on to slave ships heading across the Atlantic. His statue, until yesterday, ...