Whoever chose a Monday as 'World Happiness Day', should really check their marketing skills, unless of course the idea is to try and make people happy on their least favourite day of the week?
Today, the happiest places on earth will be announced with Scandinavian folk once again tipped to dominate proceedings whilst Britain, which languished outside the top 20 last year, is expected to take a further hit, courtesy of Brexit inspired hatred...
Over the last few months I have noticed that social media platforms have become increasingly quiet, with people deciding not to voice opinion through fear of being trolled by maniacs.
In fact, if like me, you are 'soft left' in your opinions, you can get slaughtered from all directions, with right-wing loons calling you a poof or a traitor, whilst blinkered far left socialists claim you are a Blairite capitalist working as a plant for Rupert ...
A lot is said of the grotesque money footballers earn these days, which is understandable when you hear figures of £100 - 200 and 300k a week...even more if they want to play in empty stadiums in China to boost their retirement portfolios.
Still, with added attendances, sponsorship deals, replica shirt sales and the TV cash windfalls of the Premier League and Champions League, the best players are in fact paid the market rate, grotesque or ...
The biggest issue for me with all this fake news is that it has got us all so confused, nobody knows what is fake and what is real anymore, so they just give up on the news altogether.
I think it is Vladislav Surkov, one of Putin's chief advisors, who has gone through the planned process of causing such systematic confusion in the Russian media that no one knows what is real anymore, leaving those in power a free reign amongst the chaos. It's ...
"Cuh, you wouldn't think it was spring," I said to the local Gillie whilst walking in horizontal rain along the River Anton the other day.
"It isn't yet," he said.
"Yes it is, it's March now," I replied.
"No it's not until the 21st March," he went on, as the conversation threatened to turn into a 'Two Ronnies' sketch.
"Yes but..."
"I know it's the 21st, because that's my birthday, the first day of spring".
I reluctantly ...
