I rarely write about serious stuff like mass murders here on this blog. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I regard it as pompous and pretentious for me to pontificate on the bleedin' obvious…
The title of this piece alludes to an old English saying; to 'run with the hares and hunt with the hounds' is a way of saying that someone attempts to benefit from both sides in a dispute. This saying…
...which many will recognise as the opening line of the Beatles song, "A Day in the Life". Unfortunately, I had to change the next line to '...and was as angry as Hell' rather than 'About a lucky man…
Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple's famous TV advert for the groundbreaking 'Macintosh' computer back in 1984. The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free comp…
Hear me out on this one. I've been a political animal for over half my life; for me it came with the turf of being working class boy, avoids going down the pit by going to university, comes home and s…
This has absolutely nothing to do with Wikileaks. Or maybe it does. All stories like this have two sides, and it's inevitable that we only get to see one side of it - and perhaps therein lies the Wiki…
The last visit from a Pope to the UK before the most recent one was back in 1982 - I'm old enough to remember that one. I was just finishing university at the time, and I remember doing some revision…
In the period since the General Election here in the UK I've seen a fair number of blog posts and Facebook notes entitled 'Why I'm rejoining the Labour Party' - typically by folks who were members of…
There's an old joke about politics - politicians are people who think that: Ethics is a county in the south of England Morals are paintings on plaster Scruples is the Russian currency Unfortunately it…
Early today Israeli Defence Forces attacked a convoy of ships carrying aid that were heading for Gaza. The details are sketchy; the IDF allegedly opened fire on the ships, wounding volunteers and dam…