Why the Silence on Land Owning Subsidies?

Posted on April 16, 2015

I was speaking to a chap I know the other day and he was telling me, as a land owner, how shocked he was at the subsidies he was able to claim for doing absolutely nothing. It may seem unusual for a land owner to admit such a thing but as with all walks of life, tarring with the same brush is in my opinion, a bit ignorant. Judge people as you get to know them is my motto. Anyway, this bizarre admission almost seemed like a cry for help from ...

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Election Confusion

Posted on April 9, 2015

One of the most startling things that I have heard during the election campaign is how many people don't really know who they will vote for in May. The problem the opposition (Labour) will have to face is that floating voters tend to get scared when push comes to shove and ultimately, they opt for whomever Rupert Murdoch, The Mail, The Express or The Telegraph tells them to vote for. Fear will be used as a powerful tool as history shows ...

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Gut Feeling and Judging Character at Sports Clubs

Posted on March 31, 2015

One of the things I have found whilst running the indoor cricket centre this winter, is that I am really quick to judge people as they approach me when I am working behind the bar. On Sunday, I have had three classic cases in point, firstly when a woman came in and haughtily asked if she could have two coffees and as I was preparing them said..."Could you make it quick and put a quarter of a t-spoon of sugar in one?"  "Oh why don't you ...

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Richard III – Proof That Britain is a Land of Subservient Air Heads

Posted on March 27, 2015

For a forty something bloke who likes nothing better than to vent his spleen with the written word, this week has been an utter classic of our time. Not content with championing a man dismissed by the BBC for a sustained verbal and physical assault on a junior employee, we then had people on the Radio discussing counselling for children who found the departure of a kid from a pop band just too traumatic to take. I don't know what kids in ...

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What is a Nominative Determinism?

Posted on March 25, 2015

My friend Darren posted something on Facebook yesterday that was asking whether the fact that David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross Hospital was an example of a nominative determinism. For those of you on the planet Zark, David Beckham, in between silly haircuts and marrying a pouting, poor excuse for a pop singer, was once a footballer who was renowned for his ability to whip in crosses for his grateful team-mates playing for England, ...

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