When you look and listen to the journalists on the more moderate television news organisations, the one thing that stands out is how they are struggling to comprehend the events in Paris on Friday evening.
Personally, I keep trying to look deeper in to it all rather than getting embroiled in emotional knee-jerk responses, because the easy thing to do is demand retaliation and start quoting 20th-century politicians with a lust for tyrannical ...
A junior FIFA executive has allegedly been accused of failing to accept bribes to influence the World Cup bidding process for the forthcoming 2018 and 2022 tournaments in Russia and Qatar.
The executive who has not yet been named for legal reasons, is alleged to have turned down a six figure sum to influence hotel accommodation in the South Africa 2010 World Cup as well as rejecting a gold watch that was offered as a gift by a mystery Eastern ...
When September arrived this year, I decided that because I have moved around so much in the last year and had experienced the pleasure of having many of my items getting lost, or indeed, stolen, I would treat myself to an ‘Autumn Collection’ of clothing.
Fortunately, common sense prevailed and I chose to ignore a plethora of Facebook and Twitter links associated to Nathan Rao and The Daily Express; otherwise I would be sat here in an ...
When I saw the right-wing media using the remembrance Sunday service to once again, try to discredit Jeremy Corbyn, I wondered whether it could be a turning point in the minds of the British public.
Yet again we saw the poppy fascists leap all over Corbyn, supposedly because of an alleged half-hearted bow. This, despite the fact that when the cameras had all gone home and other MP's had dispersed to a VIP lunch, he was spotted applauding and ...
When I was a kid, bonfire night or Guy Fawkes night was an invite to Withey's house to watch my Dad or Terry Withey making a nonsense of the theory that you never return to an apparently dud firework.
All we really knew about Guy himself was that he plotted to blow-up parliament and was apparently a bit of a traitor, rather than 17th-century proof that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Of course, with the advent Google ...
