Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Well the emails are coming thick and fast now. Today I had an email from Mindy Wren (Hi Mindy!) which had the above picture. The immediate thing that struck me about the picture was how like a 1950’s woman she looked. This conjures up to me a time when women stayed at home and looked …
The American elections are in full swing and the Republicans seem to have decided that I need to be fully appraised of the situation, which is odd since I am a UK citizen and have no right to vote in the elections. More importantly I also have no interest in voting and if I did …
It has been announced this week that the price of a first class stamp is to rise by 30% and a second class stamp by a whopping 39%. The reason that the rises are necessary is because of increased competition not only from others taking away delivery of physical items but by electronic means of …
There’s a vote coming soon, are you excited? On May 5th we get the chance to vote on a new voting system. We will be asked whether we want to replace the First Past the Post system that we have now with the Alternative Vote. See, it’s more exciting than you thought, isn’t it! This …
It seems that presidential style election debates are all the rage in the UK this year and last night I got to see one – regrettably not THE leaders debate but a similar event that was being held in each BBC region last night and televised. Actually it was more like Question Time than the …
Just going through the photos taken when on our tour of Australia and Hong Kong and came across this one taken at Melbourne airport. Now I know that “aviation security” or terrorism as it is called outside of airports, is important but I have never considered jokes as “a threat to commit an unlawful interference …
Having difficulty deciding who to vote for in the European elections? I know that if you are anything like me you just can’t wait to get into the polling booth and make your mark and influence the next four years of European policy. Well you will be glad to hear that there is a new …
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It was reported on the BBC today that the UK borrowed £16bn last month? Given the current financial situation just who is lending us the money?
So, finally, the day of the US elections is here. The web is full of it, particularly the US sites that I read. One site this morning was urging their readers to go and vote which I thought was very laudable until they added “You get to decide the course of the free world for …
So the 2008 Olympic Games are drawing to a close and the British are celebrating a record haul of medals – as I write this we have a pretty amazing total of 39, including 17 gold medals. What has been striking is where the successes have been achieved, in the sailing and, particularly, in the …