Music offers those friendly reminders
I’m uncertain of the year. It was around the turn of the millennium. Late 2001, maybe. I was in London, in a basement flat. It was deep into the early hours of the morning, and I had been up for…
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Life in General
My “That’s Not My Name” Name
I’m terrible with names. Like, really bad. It’s as if when I sense you’re going to tell me your name, my brain bleeps it out. With advancing years, my declining social fear allows me to just admit this. “Sorry, I…
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They Lie, and We Let them
“I didn’t do it” “That person is crooked” “Everyone wants me to just get on with it” Match the falsehood to the 1st World Country leader. “Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his…
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Limited Overs Cricket Should Change to “Balls Remaining” for 2nd Innings Winners
In cricket reporting worldwide, if the side batting first wins, then the margin of victory is quoted in runs. It’s a marker for how far ahead the first batting side was. Traditionally, this unit of measure for the side batting…
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Mobile Virtual Banking for Kids
What a great feeling when you discover something that fits a use case absolutely perfectly. Bankaroo is such a product. There comes a time in every parent’s life when Pocket Money rears its ugly head. Children get to the point…
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Further Thoughts on West Lothian
So as I write this, the final results are being counted in the UK General Election 2015. With 56 of the 59 Scottish seats going to SNP candidates the Scottish National Party now has a “Scottish bloc” vote. It will…
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Why Some British Politicians are Very Scared
It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who proclaimed that “There’s nothing to fear but fear itself,” in his inaugural speech of 1933. If these words were today uttered by one of the leaders of Britain’s two major political parties, there would…
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Namby-Pambyism and Children’s Yoghurt Commercials
This is a box of Frubes. Within are six little sachets of fruit-flavoured yoghurt. It’s entirely possible to envisage the tubes all standing to attention inside the box. This is the general thrust of their television advertisement. It features…
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