Every year I try to pop along to watch Basingstoke Town play football. It is my own way of trying to show a bit of loyalty to what is known as 'grass roots' football.
When I turned up on Saturday, nothing had changed and apart from the big screens showing multi-millionaires playing the same game 50 miles away in Bournemouth, going into The Camrose is like walking back into 1978 and that's the way they like it. I do too.
You can tell ...
It is three years ago this month I decided to bring a dog into my life. Apart from the odd pat on the head, I have never really been much of a dog person if I am honest, but I needed something to break up long days of working alone at home before insanity overwhelmed me.
Of course, at the time of purchase, I was warned by many well-meaning dog types about the pitfalls of ownership and I did have grave concerns about how to turn a plastic ...
When I watched the scenes from the ‘Remain’ march in London last week I was very impressed, at least until I started wondering what they would achieve.
Does a peaceful march make politicians do anything or does it just give them a platform to say that they fully support peaceful marches in a democracy, safe in the knowledge that it will be forgotten about within a few days?
I am not discrediting those who went to London to demonstrate ...
Did anyone see 'Mediterranean with Simon Reeve' last night? Jeez, I don't think I have been so shocked by something regarding our environmental breakdown.
The Almeria greenhouses cover 100 square miles, can be seen from space, and they supply our Supermarkets, virtually all of them as far as I can gather. Unless you are a 100% carnivore, you have almost certainly eaten from these greenhouses.
The problem is that there are no proper ...
I was talking to a work colleague the other day about immigration in the noughties and whether that has had an effect on the way people think with regards to Brexit and a populist opinion.
His theory is that because there was an influx of labour from newly appointed EU countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, this had in turn, driven the populist support for the likes of Nigel Farage. The same kind of support found at the right ...
