I had grown to genuinely hate the England football team; the miserable players, the deadpan managers and boorish, racist fans, were a stain on tournaments where Spain and a young German team played with freedom, desire and vibrancy.
England featured several players on fat club contracts who appeared to play begrudgingly in what became a self fulfilling prophecy as supporters of rival clubs booed them for their perceived lack of effort, ...
What, at a guess, most people are thinking at the moment, is how awful it must be to be going about your daily business only to get blown out of an airport or a tube station by an ISIS explosion; or receiving a phone call to be given news that a loved one is missing, probably dead, because of the actions of extremist maniacs.
Take a second or two to digest how that must feel.
Someone, an MP, or security type bloke, said the following ...
When I was seventeen, I worked as a 'Chain Boy' which, before you ask, was the name for a structural engineers assistant rather than slang for a youth who went to parties hosted by BBC children's presenters and MP's.
I didn't drive back then, so one of the lads (Mick) I worked with, used to get his dad to pick us up and drive us all back from Aldermaston to Baughurst and Tadley.
On one damp and cold winters evening as we waited for our ...
Ankara, the capital of Turkey was blasted by a car bomb for the third time in three months on Sunday, once again claiming dozens of lives and leaving the bustling city in a state of confused chaos.
It made the news for a while, gaining about the same coverage as England being crowned Six Nations Champions at rugby and Arsenal going about their obligatory late season collapse at football.
Then everyone forgot about and watched 'The Night ...
Every time I think about writing something regarding Donald Trump, I decide to wait a little longer as I am probably only a week or so away from him doing or saying something even more outrageous than ever as he goes about the business of making Hitler look like a Liberal.
Being from the United Kingdom, what I do find hard to understand is whether there is a genuine threat that he will become the next President of the United States. My ...
