A Rambling blog about all sorts of Stuff
From the lack of crowds to the burned-out players leading to a higher than usual injury rate, to the utterly abysmal way in which VAR seems to be getting worse, not better and the over-saturation of coverage of TV… It’s just been a bit shit. Read More …
My last post here was August last year, following the utter cock-up that the government made of the A-level results. My intention in starting this blog wasn’t really to spend all my time having a go at the failing government—which is good because that be a full-time job such are their failures—but instead it was supposed to be a place to express the thoughts, questions & ideas that swim around in my noggin at a bit more length than Twitter allows. Read More …
For me, the real tragedy here is those “average” students who were predicted “average” grades that would have been enough to get them a place at an “average” University who will now miss out. Read More …
When I sat and watched Prime Minister Johnson’s address to the nation on 10th May, it was with a mix of horror and confusion. Read More …
We would not tolerate the kind of behaviour we see in the House of Commons, and particularly at PMQs, at, say a school assembly or an academic debate, so why do we accept it from our elected officials? Read More …
As a younger man, I thought a blog needed to be angry about the world. It needed to get a reaction out of the reader. And who can blame me since that’s pretty much what the news media in the UK has been doing for the last forty to fifty years? Why wouldn’t you emulate it? It’s a successful formula. Read More …
It’s quite late and I’m just about satisfied with how the blog looks – for now. I need to design some headers and then I think I’ll be there. And maybe a different background image. I’ve got a few other themes installed too that I’ll want to take a look at. But for, now, I Read More …