Will I End Up Playing Bowls?

Posted on May 19, 2015

Make no bones about it, my moderate sporting prowess is beginning its descent into obscurity and whilst at times it can be a source of great entertainment on social media, it does make me miserable as well. To say my start to the cricket season has been a desperate one, is an understatement, and with scores of 3, 2 (NOT OUT) 0 and 4, my average stands at paltry 3. I took a break on Saturday, choosing to watch instead as I tried to place my ...

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Remembering the Russians – West We Forget

Posted on May 12, 2015

When I was at school, modern history was one the few things that really interested me really. I was respectably good at English, art and geography, mediocre at religious education, biology and home economics (though I made a mean fruit salad) and unspeakably bad at mathematics, technical drawing, chemistry and physics. In fact I was so bad at maths and the sciences, if I had put the results of all three together, I would have still been ...

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Fear and a Scottish Rebellion Spark a Conservative Victory!

Posted on May 8, 2015

Here is a line direct from my pre-election post on Tuesday: "Partly because of greed and partly because of fear created in the press, by Thursday, I guarantee that the electorate will sway to the perceived safety of our masters in the Conservative Party because, by nature, Britain is, in 2015, still addicted to serfdom." Sometimes it isn't so great being right, but I felt that it was always going to end that way and when the news of exit poll ...

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The Economy is Officially Boring Reading…

Posted on May 5, 2015

The other day I wrote a spoof post for the Daisy Cutter, an on-line football magazine, about Harry Redknapp jumping on the Bournemouth FC promotion wagon. The reaction to this was quite remarkable, with over two and a half thousand "likes" in response to it. This was the most publicity I have had regarding a post since I wrote something about Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine and before that, when I got harassed by an aid of Tory MP Caroline ...

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Deficit Halved or Doubled..Who actually Knows?

Posted on April 29, 2015

Which one of you reading this blog post can really say you know how financial figures are assessed and calculated, and how much in real terms, our nation's debt is, and how much it is growing or indeed shrinking? We are told by one party that debt has halved and in the same instance informed by another it has doubled, leaving us all in a constant state of confusion. At a stab, out of my regular reading base, I reckon there are only a few I ...

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