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Our Children’s Education, We all Know Best!
There was a huge debate on the radio yesterday about the British education system which, as many of you will have experienced, is a great way to fall out with friends and family with regards to what is best for our children. I will state straight away that if we are to create the fair society that various governments claim they are clamouring for, then every child born in the UK should be offered the same education, free at the point of ...
Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden) and Russian Aircraft!
I was very surprised to her of the death of Jean Alexander (who played Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street) at the weekend, not because of her age (90) but the fact that she has been added to my growing list of people who have died when I thought they were already long dead. Alexander left 'Corrie' in 1987 (about the time I had her certified dead) but apparently went on to appear (for 22 years no less) in 'Last of the Summer Wine' a Sunday ...
I Don’t Want to Change the World, I’m Not Looking For an Old England!
I found it quite conceited that us Brits were scoffing at the debacle unfolding between the 'Tangerine Fuhrer' and the 'Corporate Whore' in the presidential battle across the pond when all the while, we nearly missed the delightful Amber Rudd reciting her 2016 version Mein Kampf at the recent Conservative Party Conference. Fortunately, Rudd's speech did get picked up on by a few too many people like James O'Brien of LBC, and when David ...
Clever Conservatives Pounce on UKIP Territory!
What a bizarre week it has been once again in British politics. The Conservatives have opted for 'I'm right hard me, Brexit' as well as being socialists and fascists on the same day, whilst UKIP, who suddenly have no purpose, have been punching each other into hospital and a European hospital at that. When I heard Theresa May's conference speech, I initially thought that she was mocking the Labour party conference before delivering a ...
September Disappears as Autumn Takes Over
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." George Eliot. The colours changing in my back garden I'm not so sure about that George old chap, but I must admit, I am warming to the cooling of autumn, if you see what I mean, as it offers temperate days and spectacular colours in the fields, woods and hedgerows. September was an extraordinary month in ...