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Meet the Ukippers
One of the funniest, yet darkest things I have seen on TV for a while was the BBC 2 Documentary, ‘Meet the Ukippers’. Unlike the dreadful Channel 4 Mockumentary ‘Ukip: the First 100 Days’ (a sensationalist load of old drivel attempting to create what it would be like, with Nigel Farage in Number 10), this programme crew actually went and mixed with the genuine UKIP troops in South Thanet. I don’t like David Cameron, I never have, ...
What Does Normal Mean?
I went in to the Co-Op this morning to pick up a bottle of milk, when out of nowhere a lady at the back of the store caught my attention. “Ooh I’ve got a present for you” she said. Feeling rather perplexed, I followed her to the counter where she ducked under the shelving and emerged with a bag containing a packet of four toilet rolls and a tube of toothpaste. Apparently, I had purchased these products on Tuesday and walked off ...
The Depressed Men of Status Symbol Land
When it became apparent last week that former footballer, PFA chairman and TV pundit, Clark Carlisle, had stepped out front of a lorry in a suicide attempt, it came as little surprise because rumours had been circulating about his mental health for some time. What I found more startling is that the biggest killer in men under 50, is suicide. There were over 4,000 suicides last year, outdoing cancer, coronary disease and accidents on the ...
Employment Rights and the Abuse of Small Employers
Being someone with self-confessed socialist values, I have always supported employment rights of the worker against overzealous paymasters and there was without doubt, a time in the days of heavy industrial output, when workers required protection with regards to working conditions, pay and sickness in particular. However, times have changed and a good 50 per cent (perhaps more than that) of my peers have, because of major changes in the ...
War Porn and the Magna Carta
What a crazy few weeks it has been on the the television, with programmes featuring all the glory of war, the holocaust, Churchill and the Magna Carta. As interesting as they are, I often find that these programmes about modern history seem to have a somewhat elitist bias to them, possibly because the majority of the arts and media industry is dominated by the offspring of the ruling classes. Churchill for instance, has been documented as ...