
As far as British politics goes, the whole thing is pretty much over now as we slide slowly towards the next general election. The last budget has been announced and the party battle lines have well and truly been drawn in the sand.
Yesterday the Chancellor delivered a heavily politically slanted budget, designed to shore [...]
Every year thousands of die-hard health fanatics, running sadists, charity fundraisers and lunatics wearing ridiculous costumes hit the streets of London to participate in what is arguably Britain’s biggest charity fundraising event.
The London Marathon is one of the high points of the city summer season. Once again this year thousands upon thousands of runners, almost [...]
According to the dictionary, the act of being thrifty revolves around the careful and diligent use of resources. During the excessive culture of the 80’s and the 90’s thriftiness was associated with austerity and portrayed as miserly, but as with most notions, fashions and ideals, these things often go full circle and come round again [...]
I realised the other day that I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the delights of Spain, but I’d never ventured across the border into Portugal. Part of this is because I’ve never actually been to Portugal, where as I’ve been to Spain several times. So to redress this we’re once again off on [...]
I spend a lot of time skimming the internet, one of my favourite net hobbies happens to be trawling through travel and tourism sites looking at pictures of people having fun in exotic locations – this of course angers me greatly, but I do like to daydream of killing them in an exotic places…
So in [...]
After the conclusion of the Second World War Britain, and most of the world for that matter, was in a sorry old state. During the late 1940’s most of Western Europe remained a warzone, devoid of homes and facilities; large parts of Britain had also been ravaged by Luftwaffe, leaving thousands homeless and yearning [...]