One of the most startling things that I have heard during the election campaign is how many people don't really know who they will vote for in May.
The problem the opposition (Labour) will have to face is that floating voters tend to get scared when push comes to shove and ultimately, they opt for whomever Rupert Murdoch, The Mail, The Express or The Telegraph tells them to vote for. Fear will be used as a powerful tool as history shows ...
One of the things I have found whilst running the indoor cricket centre this winter, is that I am really quick to judge people as they approach me when I am working behind the bar.
On Sunday, I have had three classic cases in point, firstly when a woman came in and haughtily asked if she could have two coffees and as I was preparing them said..."Could you make it quick and put a quarter of a t-spoon of sugar in one?"
"Oh why don't you ...
My friend Darren posted something on Facebook yesterday that was asking whether the fact that David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross Hospital was an example of a nominative determinism.
For those of you on the planet Zark, David Beckham, in between silly haircuts and marrying a pouting, poor excuse for a pop singer, was once a footballer who was renowned for his ability to whip in crosses for his grateful team-mates playing for England, ...
What is it with English team sport and its miserable, turgid, statistical obsession that leaves it lying in a pile of data sheets as the rest of the world enjoys major sporting events like the festival of entertainment they are supposed to be?
For years, we have witnessed English football teams scrambling their way into major tournaments only to turn up with surly faces, multitudes of psychologists, dieticians and managers who talk about ...
When I occasionally drop Harry into college during the week, we make a compromise between Radio 4 (me) and Heart FM (him) and listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2.
At just after 8:30 he (Chris Evans) does a thing where he plays an old song, followed by another and you are invited to have a guess as to whether the release of the latter song is a higher or lower year than the first.
Being a fountain of any knowledge that is effectively ...
