The Musings of a Middle Aged Grumpy Bastard
This past Saturday, my wife, my children and I took a trip to London for the day. In the afternoon we went to Madame Tussauds, which was very pleasant, but in the morning we attended the open day at Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill in Wembley Park Read More …
I have said this before but, I love the way that language can be used to manipulate the way people think about something. Take, for example, the way that people who have entered a country though means other than the official channels have been described before and after the recent U.S. Presidential election. Prior to Read More …
In 2015, when Britain voted for a right-of-centre Conservative majority that no one had predicted, there were protests on the street from left-wingers. In June 2016 when Britain voted to leave the EU when no one expected it, left-wingers were on the streets protesting. And now that Trump has been elected President when no one Read More …
I’d like to say something to the folks across the pond who are feeling the kind of shock, disappointment and, yes, even anger, that I felt on the morning of June 24th. Democracy sucks. It’s a flawed system and sometimes you don’t get the result you want or expect. But it’s the best system we Read More …
If there’s one thing I hate more than anything else, it’s Marmite. But that aside, what I hate, really hate, particularly in public figures, is hypocrisy. Read More …
It’s sometimes (erroneously) referred to as “The Mother of All Parliaments”, can claim to date back to the late 1200’s and it’s the model for parliamentary democracy in large portions of the world (primarily the Commonwealth countries that gained independence from the British Empire). But today, at around 4:30pm, The House of Commons in the Palace of Read More …
Found a very interesting article on Medium on music streaming services. Link below “The Finger’s on the Self-Destruct Button” @Innerviews https://medium.com/@Innerviews/the-finger-s-on-the-self-destruct-button-8502f3cc4b5c
I’ve just heard about “Clean Reader” today. I do hope they are not selling any of my books, because there won’t be an awful lot left after Clean Reader has filtered out all the “bad” stuff. Here’s Joanne Harris’s response to an e-mail they sent her after she made her feelings about the app very Read More …
This article in the Left leaning New Statesman rules out any cooperation between what are likely to be the two parties the largest number of MPs after the next election. But for me, the quote from it that sums up all that is wrong with the British political system is this… “If on May 8 Read More …