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Christopher Jefferies – A Tale For Christmas
I watched a brilliant two parter with my youngest son, Harry, last week, called the 'Lost honour of Christopher Jefferies' written by Peter Morgan and brilliantly acted by Jason Watkins who played the part of Jefferies in mesmeric style. If you didn't see it, you may remember the snowy Christmas of 2010, when Jefferies, an innocent man, faced unbelievable trial by useless policing and vindictive media purely because he was an eccentric ...
Christmas Nostalgia
I was in Sainsbury's yesterday, picking up some Christmas booze for my clients when I got interrupted by some old chap who, at a guess, was in his seventies. "When I was young, me and my dad used to pick up our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and that was that. Now it starts in October." He then went on to say something along the lines of being lucky if in his day he got a clip around the ear and a bag of chestnuts for a gift. Quite why ...
The Miserable Days of Nativity Plays!
Because of the hectic schedule in my work and domestic life at the moment, I have not really had much time to get in to the spirit of Christmas yet, or even take part in the annual ordeal that is writing Christmas cards. So when I drove past a school this evening to see cars spilling out on to the side roads and queues of parents snaking towards the main hall area, it brought back memories of when a decade or so of my Decembers were dictated ...
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 ...