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Time to Stop Listening to Media Groups!

Posted on April 6, 2017

There was a time in the not too distant past when the only access to current affairs came from three television channels and the national and local news groups. Newspapers were a huge part of our lives as anyone who has ever done a paper round will testify, however, they are now falling in numbers and as a consequence, their owners are pushing even harder than ever to get the general public to buy into their agenda. The comment pages like ...

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Nostalgia and Fear Sent us Down the Brexit Path!

Posted on March 29, 2017

I was watching Newsnight on BBC 2 last night and a short feature with Nick Clegg visiting Ebww Vale came on. Ebbw Vale was once a steel town providing work for the local community, however, that has long since gone and it is now home to 25% unemployment and it would appear, little hope outside some EU funded regeneration. Over 60 per cent of the town voted to leave the EU, despite its only source of infrastructure finance coming from the ...

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London 2017 – My Near Brush With Death!

Posted on March 23, 2017

As I sit here at my desk in the outskirts of Andover, looking wistfully at the grey March sky outside my window, I can't help but wonder...why I am still here? My window: I looked wistfully out of it yesterday My nearly tragic story began last autumn. In October 2016, I was asked by one of my clients whether I had any electrical fit-out staff available for a project they were tendering for in Green Park, London. The project was ...

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Martin McGuinness – A Day of Eulogies and Hate!

Posted on March 22, 2017

In the ten years I have been blogging, I am not sure if there has been anything more emotive to write about than Martin McGuinness, freedom fighter, terrorist, peacemaker and finally, a politician, who died yesterday, at the surprisingly young age of 66. I say surprisingly young, because ever since I can remember, Martin McGuinness has been in the news, from peace marches gone wrong, to devastating pub bombings in Guildford and Birmingham, ...

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Britain Languishes on World Happiness Day!

Posted on March 20, 2017

Whoever chose a Monday as 'World Happiness Day', should really check their marketing skills, unless of course the idea is to try and make people happy on their least favourite day of the week? Today, the happiest places on earth will be announced with Scandinavian folk once again tipped to dominate proceedings whilst Britain, which languished outside the top 20 last year, is expected to take a further hit, courtesy of Brexit inspired hatred...

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