Cricket

I want to make a complaint, but before I do that, I should give the basis of my expertise. At school I played from the Also-rans, and when I was evacuated in 1939/40 I played for a village team on the village green. I could bat a bit, bowled off breaks with some success, but… Continue reading Cricket

A New View on Racism

If you choose to read on, you will probably find that this is not what you expected. I spent two years of my childhood in Northern Rhodesia in the 20s, when the white man ruled and the indigenous population were virtual slaves. But the mindset of the whites had nothing to do with racism, they… Continue reading A New View on Racism

They are still at it

With a level gaze, and a firm voice, all our leaders in the House of Commons informed us that they were going to bring us into the 20th century if not the 21st by reforming the way in which the House of Commons was run. But I noticed that with this election of the new… Continue reading They are still at it

The Blair Legacy

The Blair legacy Right up until the premiership of Anthony Eden, there was very little public criticism of the behaviour of prime ministers as a general rule, other than Neville Chamberlain. Because access to information by the general public only became easy with the advent of television, the average citizen was generally politically lethargic. At… Continue reading The Blair Legacy

Violence as a product of pleasure

This statement inevitably applies to today. In Belfast on St Patrick’s night in the University district, a proportion of drunken students, had pitched battles, as part of a night out. When constantly complaining about youth behaving either badly or criminally, it is generally considered that it is in the poorer districts, where parental control is… Continue reading Violence as a product of pleasure