Television, she is a fickle mistress. Sometimes it’s great, mostly it’s awful rubbish. Then, in the early 90s we experienced a sudden uplift in the number of television shows from different countries dropping into our television schedules. This wasn’t a completely new thing, as we’d been used to imports since the early 80s, with Dallas,Continue reading “Television Shows That Have Passed Me By.”
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Politics and Religion
Politics and Religion? Phew, OK then, here we go. The benchmark of modern civilization, and the defining instrument which has pulled educated and responsible people away from bludgeoning one-another over the head with the discarded leg bones of their devoured foes, is the ability to discuss matters and reach conclusions, whether compromise or consensus, that makeContinue reading “Politics and Religion”
Hiring a Van
For most men in this day and age, an age of information technology and electronic communication, we go to work, sit at a desk and tip-tap away at our keyboards and feel all very clever and important about whatever mindless and irrelevant form-filling and box-ticking we’re engaged in. There are few people in white middle-classContinue reading “Hiring a Van”
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