Anyone who plays or supports recreational cricket (and isn’t
a total Boris Johnson sycophant) would have learnt over the last fortnight what
a lying, blustering, cretin the Prime Minister is.
For reasons I can’t explain, Johnson seems to be targeting recreational cricket
as a way to prove he knows what he is talking about. He tries to explain, with
faux authority, why cricket is unique and cannot go ahead.
Blagging and Waffling
All ...
I had always been of the belief that if an individual had a poor education, with the ability to read, learning is still a life choice. With the advent of the internet, this became even more the case. Good Information at your fingertips via Google, Wikipedia, and countless other sources.
I stuck with this belief right up until Covid19 appeared on
the scene. As it emerged as a public health crisis in the UK, I have read about
it nearly every ...
I bought a camera as a lockdown gift to myself recently. It is a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000. It was chosen after months of the type of middle-aged dithering I thought I would never suffer from.
Impulse Purchasing
As a man of impulse purchasing, I have almost made a career out of buying ill-advised clothes, gadgets, cars, and in one tragic case, a house with someone as unsuitable as the shit location it was in. However, in recent ...
I have been thinking a lot about racism and prejudice this
week. I still don’t know enough about it to be anywhere near an expert. Still,
I hope what I am about to write makes sense.
The problem as I see it, is there are a lot of people who
have convinced themselves they are not racists because they are fundamentally
decent. They wouldn’t scream racial obscenities like those morons in London
last week; so, in their mind, that means they ...
Old Boris Johnson seems to be making more U Turns than a
knackered SatNav right now. The latest, under pressure from a footballer, being
the extension into the summer that offers food vouchers for the poorest kids in
society.
Sport & Politics
Of course, the government should be happy that a professional
footballer is doing his bit for the Coronavirus. After all, it was footballers
who they told to do more at the beginning of the ...