The other day I went along to the cinema to see the new Tintin movie, my first cinema visit since Avatar. It’s rather a pity that movies are now so expensive that I can only go to ones that I know/hope are going to be worth the money but in this case I was more […]
Around this time last year my soon-to-be wife and I were finalising the preparations for our wedding. There are many questions that will be endlessly asked of newly-wed (or soon-to-be-wed) couples: How did you meet? How long have you known each other? Do the parents approve? But for me the worst question was “What do […]
In the past few days we have seen the issue of refugee processing rear its ugly head yet again in what I can only suspect is a bid to bury the issue during the Christmas/New Years season. It’s an incredibly clichéd topic but I think it warrants a revisit. Immigration has always been a problem […]
A friend recently made the observation that historians have been saying 2011 is a year which has completely changed the course of human history. While, on reflection, I think that he was pointing out the silliness of historians predicting the future, it is a point worth considering. On January 4th, almost a month after setting […]
I have been trying to think of how to respond to this morning’s events in a fuller and more considered manner after the rushed unofficial response I published this morning. The difficulty lies in a total inability to understand what happened today. I know what happened – the actions – I know the Council’s motivation […]