Busy start to the New Year

Is it just me or is the news jam packed with murder cases right now?
Everytime I look at the BBC news website there is a new case, today some chap got shot in the head as he drove through Merseyside in his Landrover. I mean 4×4’s and their drivers annoy me but there is no [...]

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Social problems, when to act?

Last night the pub opposite remained partying way past 1am, I was up in my ‘thinking room’ (thats my brothers old bedroom) being very thoughtful by watching Red Dwarf series 6 when the usual tense air that you can sense pervading from its yellowing walls exploded into all out conflict, it was 2am in the [...]

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What the hell do you do with these people?

On my trawl through the news I alighted upon the story of the man who punched Man Utd Manager Alex Ferguson in the groin at a train station and then proceeded to headbutt a PCSO both in unprovoked attacks
The man in question, one Kevin Reynolds has a past criminal record of 146 convictions including many for violence [...]

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Categorisation, our favourite pastime

I’ve spent a couple of days doing my usual complete reappraisal of myself, I’ve been on a bit of a high of late and somewhere up in the clouds where logic and reason fell short of reaching me.
Not that I’ve had a great deal of Logic and Reason thrown at me by other people, merely [...]

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Regressive policies do not lead us forward (go figure)

I read about the proposals to introduce chemical sterilization of sex offenders who target children, and I guess I wouldn’t be me if I raised an argument against that one, no doubt anyone who reads this will think of me as some raving left wing madman but if you’ll consider my argument for a second [...]

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Discussion point for a grey Friday morning

I’m going to put this one out there as a point of discussion for any who may be interested.
Should sex offenders face chemical sterilisation?
Its quite the de rigeur in Europe I hear and there are many calls for it to happen here.
However such calls invariably come from people who read The Sun and of course [...]

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