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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is a tired old saying that suggests that by adding variety, the spice of life is enhanced and I guess that by visiting the home of Basingstoke Town FC one day and going to the FA Cup Final at Wembley the next, is a fine example.
My trip to the Camrose on Friday evening was actually an invite to a football club fund raiser from some friends I have cobbled together in my 20 years or so in Basingstoke, with the star turn of the evening ...
