Marvellous short story by Stephen King, read it if you haven’t already. Today trawling through the morning news I read something about David Cameron getting involved with The Global Movement of Moderates As A Driver For Social Change – bit of a mouthful there, but at least they got ‘global’ in there twice to stress [...]
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Everything You Love Will Be Carried Away
Posted in Political on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Day in the Life of the Profound
Posted in Freedom of Information, Political, Pop Culture, Speculation, UK politics on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…then I spent half an hour trying to think of something witty and profound to put up a my Facebook status but couldn’t so I finally just tapped out a few lines from a song I know because there’s nothing like using another person’s song to demonstrate one’s own individuality. After that I went through [...]
And in other news, Scotch eggs contain…eggs!
Posted in Political, UK politics on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Labour Government is announcing new plans to increase social mobility, which include such ground-breaking initiatives as encouraging top professions and universities to attract people from deprived backgrounds. I don’t know about you but I thought the whole point of Capitalism was the bullshit about aspiration and that acting as an incentive, you know poverty being this wonderful inspiration [...]
Some sense amongst the chaos
Posted in Northern Ireland, Political, Violence, War on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The attacks on the Massereene Army base, Antrim in which two young soldiers were killed and four other people injured mark another senseless killing in a world that seems to completely lack any sense whatsoever. The death of two young men, who I notice were both younger than myself a factor which always accentuates the [...]
Breathing a sigh of relief
Posted in democracy, Government, History, Political, US Politics, World on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re living through times of change, that much is clear, even to those who might choose to ignore the events of the past couple of days. I’m not usually someone who likes to highlight racial issues but I feel that set against the background of 20th century US history the fact that Barack Obama was [...]
Boom Boom
Posted in Political, UK politics on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So did anyone hear on the news that several people were arrested in relation to a plot to kill Gordon Brown? You hope that David Miliband will be released from questioning in time to demonstrate some more breathtaking hypocrisy in foreign policy statements regarding Russia’s military intervention in Georgia; I mean what with the weather [...]
Going down swinging
Posted in democracy, Political, UK politics on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking of using the title of this post as the jumping off point for a script for a pornographic film that I would put together using much of the college drama department, it would have an ironic ring to it seeing as I’d be banged up behind bars (that really is an unpleasant [...]
Back to basics, Minimum wage
Posted in Economy, Free Market, Political, UK politics on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s get back on track, I have not had a good argument in too long, it has been nothing but the rather pointless philosophical point scoring of a class full of people that get confused between the search for truth and meaningless arguments in which the only objective is to win, no matter how wrong [...]
Provocation, an interesting concept
Posted in Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Political, UK politics, US Politics, War, World on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iran has come under fire for test firing nine missiles, including a new Shahab-3, with a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles). The missile could potentially reach the Israeli city of Tel-Aviv and naturally combined with the concerns of an Iranian military nuclear program has provoked condemnation from Israel and the US. The BBC Diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus voiced the opinion [...]
