I have always known that the Daily Mail is a spiteful paper; it has a long history of supporting the likes of Mussolini and other far right groups such as the Blackshirts headed by Oswald Moseley.
However, by smearing the dead for political gain they have succeeded in surpassing my expectations of them. Paul Dacre knows that you can't face charges for libel when the persons character you are assassinating is dead, so that is why, being the ...
I don't seem to watch much television these days, I just don't get the time in between cricket, children and work. I don't actually miss it really and the time I spend working at home I tend to flick between BBC Radio 4, 5 and 6.
However, on Tuesday I found myself watching Alan Titchmarsh designing a Mediterranean garden, followed by a documentary about the workhouses that used to be the home of the British underclass and then, finally, a ...
What with it being a four day week and all sorts of other things going on, it has been a real struggle carrying out my favourite hobby of writing blog posts. This wasn't helped by the mass popularity of this site that resulted in it crashing through its bandwidth limit, leaving literally tens of people with nothing read on the Bank Holiday weekend, just when they needed me the most. Only my fans can judge what it must be like to be denied my ...
I went down to The Joiners in Southampton last night to watch The Men They Couldn't Hang for the third time in the last eighteen months and as usual, they did not disappoint.
Southampton as a city is relatively alien territory to me, a North Hampshire boy brought up out in the sticks of Baughurst and now living in semi-surburban safety just south of Basingstoke. I didn’t realise what a tough old place it is; parts Southampton makes Popley ...
I had virtually erased Boundary Hall from my memory until, a few weeks ago when I drove past it to see that it is now a large Cala Homes housing development. Coincidentally, just a few days later, it (Boundary Hall) came up in conversation with my friend Steve, whose wife once worked at the AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) nearby, as did I briefly, before escaping its clutches. For those of you who have never heard of Boundary Hall, it was a ...