In this modern age of the informative superhighway it has been suggested that we, as consumers of modern life have become considerably more demanding, more impatient and as a result more unreasonable. While there may be some truth to this, what is never explained in any detail is why this has happened, and this dear friends is where I come in, offering enlightenment through the singular example of a vacuum cleaner.
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When he’s ill and you don’t have time to be…
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Those of you who follow the various cut and thrust of my personal life will know that on most Saturdays I play host to a mob of eight or so 12 year olds who spend the afternoon yelling at each other as they play one of Games Workshop’s myriad convoluted wargames. This invariably leads to door slamming, stomping away furiously and plenty of voluminous accusations of cheating. How it takes me back…
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While my default mood is possibly best described as irate I have recently started becoming increasingly vexed by members of the marketing and advertising professions who have taken it upon themselves to hijack various pieces of language for underhanded uses.
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The British government are, once again, bleating on about binge drinking and coming up with new and innovative means of stopping it. Continue reading “Drink!” »

Could be that I am simply getting old. Actually, I’m definitely getting old but that’s beside the point my argument is still pretty solid – what the hell happened to the future?
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Thoroughly enjoying the recent spate of cranky old man letters sent to anyone who’ll listen, our hero sets his sights on the Liberal Democrat party and picks some holes in their political approach which will probably leave them unelectable. Again.
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London’s mayoral election is looming and the two leading candidates have been jousting and generally sniping at each other for several tiresome months now. As ever the political discourse is more about who can be more smug, condescending and generally clever regarding their opponent.

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This is a little something I’ve been meaning to write for a while, and since thinking about the subject initially I decided to hold off and build up some source material to back up my point. However, me being me that thinking fell by the wayside, but since I’m in a clearing up kind of mood I’ve decided to just let rip and see where the chips fall.

British media has an unhealthy fixation with celebrity, earned and generated. As a regular commuter into London this is never more obvious than within the pages of the daily, free tabloids The London Lite and The London Paper.

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