Speaker Dearest, Call Them To Order Then Close The Door Behind You

Let me get this off my chest straight away. I really can’t stand Michael Martin. I think he has a chip on his shoulder and is far to jumped up and in search of praise/notority for his own good.
However.
However, the Mail, and others let’s not forget, have an even bigger problem with him. Why? Well, [...]

The Wail of Parents: It’s Not My Fault My Child is Spoilt

Interesting stuff over the last day or two in in the UK about advertising and children. The main thrust of which appears to be that the reason kids are fat, annoying, rude, stupid, lazy and pig ignorant is because Tomy advertise during Lazy Town (great show by the way, check it out).
Now, I’m not going [...]

The Only Newspaper That Should Come With a Health Warning

Ironically, the newspaper that doth protest so much about cancer and scary contagious diseases is the same newspaper that is likely to cause you a terminal illness in the first instance. Well, at least given a fair run of daily reads. I’d say around a couple of hundred copies should do the trick. Just to [...]

Why I am Against the Smoking Ban

Whenever I hear the word ‘ban’, I instantly start to get pissed off. It’s a sort of natural instinct. Sometimes I soul search for reasons why. I usually come to the same conclusions each time.
The smoking ban was a classic case in point. When I first heard this was being mooted by the government back [...]

Suburban Misery, Suburban Hell.

I grew up in a suburb. I hated it. From what I’ve gathered from all my fellow suburbanites over the years, most other people who grew up in such areas think likewise.
I am born to a family belonging to that great ‘baby boomer’ generation that lived through an era where a life in the suburbs, [...]