I don't know if anyone else has noticed but there has been a staggering amount of media focus on UKIP in the last few weeks; all over the press and always it seems, second or third up on the mains news stations such as the BBC, C4 and ITV.
I had been finding it difficult to understand this, at least until I read somewhere that OFCOM had awarded UKIP temporary major party status in England and Wales (they are an irrelevance in Scotland...
I don’t know how many of you have been watching the BBC 2 documentary series about estate agents but if you haven’t, get on iPlayer and watch it, it is great TV with characters that you assume you are going to despise but somehow you can’t help but like.
Most of you on will have had some dealing with estate agents in the past but probably not as many as me (7 moves in 20 years) and I have to say that in the majority of cases, I have ...
For the last few years, I have been fortunate to have been involved, at least loosely, with the refurbishment of some of the most extravagant homes in London.
When I say involved, I mean right near the bottom of the food chain as the supplier of electrical labour to one of my clients who had either the good sense, or good fortune, to move into this market when every other sector of the economy was spectacularly collapsing into oblivion.
If ...
There is an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity and if this is the case, the folk of my former home town should be grateful for the efforts of fraudster, Conservative MP, Maria Miller, for getting the town of Basingstoke on the national news.
Miller: Crook
To many people, the news of an MP stealing tax payers money is not nearly as important as Bruce Forsyth retiring from Strictly, but all the same, it is big news ...
I was having an email conversation with a friend the other day where I said that a school reunion had little meaning to me as I was completely indifferent to five years of my life in an education system that for one reason or another, I didn't respond to.
His argument was that our schooling was what shaped us to being what we are now and that we all seem to be doing okay now, so it couldn't have been that bad. My argument is that I learnt to ...
