The buzz question in Britain at the moment is "how do we combat knife-crime?". Looking around you find there are a lot of answers. Some suggest tackling poverty as an indirect solution; some suggest having police stop-and-search every questionable face on the street; I have even seen suggested that knives should have their pointed tips [...]
Category Archives: politics
Ripping Off
There is a lively debate on the BBC Blogs about downloading files illegally. I’m not so sure where I stand now. I don’t personally download content illegally (though I do copy my CDs onto my computer for my own personal use on my iPod). I can see why people would want to download music themselves, [...]
Come To London
People often ask me why I dislike London so much. It’s the pretentiousness and arrogance of the place.
Take this morning. I received an email from the TDA trying to persuade me to get into teaching. It has announced its new pay rises for newly qualified teachers. From £20,627 to £20,155 marks a whopping 2.45% pay [...]
Youth Culture
Try being a child today. It’s even harder than you think. Kids do tend to take things in their stride: that is true. However, it seems that fact is often abused by those in control over them.
Children don’t get the rub of the green. They are tested more now than they ever have been, and [...]
Bio Break
There is some discussion as to whether biofuels are the future of powering motor vehicles. The idea is that we create fuels by growing crops rather than digging oil out of the ground. The desired effect is that carbon emissions are reduced, and that the impending global drought of oil won’t have such a huge [...]
Political Incorrectness
I recall whilst at school in a Religious Studies class, we were asked as an exercise to describe ourselves in six words. Some were selected by the teacher to read out the words they had chosen. He had deliberately chosen students with some questionable views and hardened fronts to start. The first had chosen [...]