Hypocrisy
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 …
The Mother of all Laughing Stocks
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 …
“The Finger’s on the Self-Destruct Button”
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
Clean Reader
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 …
Is it any Wonder People Think the System is Broken.
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 …
Short Rant on Extreme Political Correctness
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100 Days to Go #GE2015
Today represents 100 days until the UK General Election of 2015. Which means we still have three months of this sort of cringe-worthy political squirming as seen when Andrew Neil interviewed Natalie Bennett, leader of the Greens on his Sunday Politics show yesterday Actually, it’s worth watching even if you’re not interested in British Politics Read More …
The End of Page 3? Nope, Not Yet #page3isback
Well, it looks like The Sun played a huge joke on the rest of The Media and the #nomorepage3 campaign. This was tweeted earlier this evening. Tomorrow's #Page3… pic.twitter.com/pzyZ7Qhe9N — The Sun (@TheSun) January 21, 2015 Well, you know what they say, no publicity is bad publicity – that 2nd pic showing a close-up of Read More …
4 Months of This…
I saw this, frankly, brilliant meme on twitter yesterday. it pretty much sums up what the next four months are going to be like for us Brits. I feel really quite depressed about the following sentence. I’m not looking forward to this election campaign one little bit. This how I feel. I can’t help it Read More …