The Bombay Sapphire
When brown signs for the Bombay Sapphire arrived all over Basingstoke a while ago, I have to admit that I initially thought it was a new Indian restaurant somewhere in Overton. However, knowing Indian restaurants after being involved with them in the past in a professional capacity, I am aware of how ferociously they protect their cash and brown sign posts are not cheap; in fact, they range between 8 to 40 thousand pounds for a single ...
Why Do Celebrity Peers Demonise the Poor?
After a largely uneventful working week, I managed to bring Friday to a spectacular climax by creating an unenviable situation where I managed to upset two of my customers in the space of an hour. The detail is too complex to elaborate on (due to my all new shortened blogs) but it was a situation that could have been avoided by better communication from all parties but ended with me, the supplier, having to make all the grovelling apologies...
Stagnation Inspires New Look Blogging!
I have had my youngest son Harry staying with me over the last few days and because he is studying aspects of social media at college, I asked why the growth of this webpage appeared to be slowing down, with 'new visitors' only just ahead of 'returning visitors'. That's the trouble with having site statistics, it throws cold water over any fantasies about thousands of people reading your work. As a consequence, opening a page to see how many ...
The Problem With the Working Poor!
There are a lot of working poor people in Britain who depend on a little help from the government. In fact, according to the right-wing publication, The Spectator, seven million people, all of whom are about to be worse off by roughly £1200 a year. This has been, it appears, a total U-turn by the government in its, at best, fragile effort to claim to be the party of the working man; it was a pre-election policy that worked, convincing ...
Britain and Documentaries on Racism!
I don't know if it is just me who seems to find them all the time, but British TV these days appears to be addicted to some sort of racist porn, with a plethora of documentaries featuring far-right organisations such as the EDL and Britain First. The standard process of these documentaries features an investigator going to an EDL or Britain First march in a provincial town like Leamington Spa, pointing at some Neanderthals with Union Jack ...