Nationalist Media and the Refugee ‘Crisis’!
I don't know whether people were taught properly at school or not but there are so many events such as the Calais refugee situation (I refuse to call it a crisis) at the moment that are causing so much nationalist fervour, I can only imagine it is a situation worsened by irresponsible and incendiary stories in right-wing newspapers such as The Mail and The Express. One of the 20th Century events that, as far as I can recall, was brushed under ...
Cricketing Inequality Amid the Glory!
This is a quick post as I am going on holiday for a week with my girlfriend to Santorini, a Greek Island, and if I write a blog post from there, my days will be numbered. "What, you are going on holiday again?" I hear you wail. Yes, that's right I am, I can't really afford it, but I will be moving house when I get back, which will drain my resources and at some time in the future I will be dead, so I am going on holiday and and that's ...
The Jam Exhibition – Somerset House
I went to see The Jam exhibition with my youngest son today at Somerset House in London, which, if you don't know, is just over Waterloo Bridge and a few hundred yards eastbound on the edge of the River Thames. I was very young when I first heard The Jam, courtesy of my elder brother Graham, who had bought their début album In the City in 1977, an album that immediately impressed me as on the track Time for Truth, lead singer Paul Weller ...
Walter Palmer and Cecil the Lion!
If American dentist and big game hunter, Walter Palmer, didn't know what it is like to be hunted, he does now. Through Facebook, Twitter and all other forms of social media, this guy is getting chased from all corners of the globe, in which, it has to be said, is a dubious way of him getting five minutes, or indeed, five days of fame. Of course, if you Google 'Cecil the Lion' or 'Walter Palmer' you will get all sorts of psychologists explai...
What Should Become of the House of Lords?
It's quite strange isn't it, that the House of Lords always seems far away from our minds, hidden away in the background like a child with Tourette's syndrome that a parent is too embarrassed to take to a social function. It only really seems to pop up in the news and social media when it gets caught out beyond the apparent boundaries of its own dubious conduct, as with the case this week with Lord Sewel, the deputy speaker and the man ...