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Welcome to the Wild Left Show!
If you talk to anyone who has a left-wing bias to their politics, you will generally find individuals who have similar ideologies of social equality. These include protection of the NHS from privatisation, equal education for all at the point of delivery, fair taxation, worker's rights and national responsibility for those who are elderly, sick, or less fortunate than ourselves. That's why they (Labour) get votes, because they have ...
A Great Sporting Weekend as Dunblane…I Mean GB, Win the Davis Cup!
On the face of it, it has been a great sporting weekend, what with a new world boxing champion, Englishman, Jamie Vardy, breaking a Premier League scoring record, and of course, Great Britain winning the Davis Cup for the first time since it snowed every Christmas and everyone in our nation had rosy cheeks and loved nothing more than beating the evil Hun in wars in between having a picnic with Cissy by a glistening trout stream. I must admit, ...
Another Birthday and a New Pet!
Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who took the effort to wish me happy birthday yesterday, the powers of social media made it possible to feel at least a little bit special on another day towards an inexorable decline into nylon elasticated slacks. However, if there is one good thing about the ageing process, it is the ability to lose track of advancing years, and for some reason, during the last year, I have assumed I have been 48 ...
Paris – The Tears, Hypocrisy and Fears
When you look and listen to the journalists on the more moderate television news organisations, the one thing that stands out is how they are struggling to comprehend the events in Paris on Friday evening. Personally, I keep trying to look deeper in to it all rather than getting embroiled in emotional knee-jerk responses, because the easy thing to do is demand retaliation and start quoting 20th-century politicians with a lust for tyrannical ...
Jose Mourinho – A Psychologists Dream
Psychologists will tell you that one of the toughest aspects of winning something or indeed, reaching any sporting, personal or financial goal, is lifting yourself or those around you, to levels of motivation to repeat the process or set new targets. Achieving a goal comes with all sorts of psychological challenges and many athletes describe feelings of emptiness and a fear of the future when something they have worked for since childhood has ...