Britain Braces Itself For Worst Daily Express Weather Headlines For 100 Years!
Britain could be in line for it worst winter of Daily Express headlines for over 100 years, experts have warned. Brian Scandal from the on-line tabloid scaremongering organisation, Expresscheck.com, believes that all the signs are pointing towards a winter of Express winter headlines like never seen before. "The signs are not good. We had our first Arctic winter headlines in September and they have persisted through the Autumn and into ...
A Day at the Races
There are not many sports that I don't understand, but along with Formula One, a strange kind of race where the best car nearly always wins, horse racing has never really tickled my fancy. I am not really sure why, it may be my deep seated fear of getting addicted to gambling or it could simply be my general apathy to anything that is associated to the aristocracy. Horse racing, I am reliably informed, is the sport of kings. I have been ...
Black Friday Shows the Ugly Side of Capitalism
I was reading an article the other day that was, in effect, contrary to the the greed, selfishness and 'dog eat dog' attitudes that have been pummelled into Western society since aggressive capitalism took hold in the Thatcher/Reagan years. During the early eighties' when the Cold War was at its peak, excessive capitalism was used as a weapon against communism, with the breaking down of financial restrictions freeing up a spending and lending ...
Cricket’s Saddest Day!
When I heard the other day that Phillip Hughes, the Australian batsman, had been seriously injured by a bouncer, I was quite shocked but, naively it turns out, glad it seemed that he had got to hospital to be treated in time. When we hear of sports star badly injured, because of advancement in medical procedure, we just assume a predictable miracle. In this case, it appears that those who saw him hit the floor knew he was effectively dead on ...
The Joys of a First Aid Course
I don't know why, but whenever I go on courses I always feel a tremendous sense of isolation in the build up. I think this because once taken I am out of the comfort zone of my chosen peers, my confidence evaporates and I start feeling an overwhelming sense that I am about to make a fool of myself. I think this stems back to the first ever course I went on as a naive 22 year old sales rep for Manders Paints when I made the mistake of going on ...