Twenty-one years ago, in Manchester, England, on Saturday 15 June 1996 in the very late morning, a bombing attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. They detonated a 1,500-kilogram truck bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester [the biggest ever bomb the IRA ever exploded on the British mainland, […]
As many who follow football will know, a football Manager’s job is unbelievably ’unsafe’ – they ALL end-up getting sacked, you see? Now sometimes that is even within a timescale counted in days from appointment, though of course that is quite unusual, though NOT unique! Terminations happen at EVERY bleeding club, BIG or SMALL, whatever […]
Well, we are in touching distance of another General Election in the UK, aren’t we? Yep, less than three weeks, the party manifestos are all out now, as if anyone (except the political commentators, or even SOME candidates), actually give a dam, cares, reads them, or takes any notice at all of them, eh?), and […]
Our lovely Britain is gone forever, hasn’t it? Yep, modern Britain, though it remains one of the richest countries in the world (indeed in terms of total wealth it has been certainly classified 5th richest behind the US, China, Japan and Germany), it just isn’t a patch on what it used to be, unfortunately? It […]
[Many thanks to all this blog followers, & readers of these posts, and particularly those who have also chosen to comment on them over the past few years (just some hundred or so of those remarks which may interest you, are reproduced below)] Education in the UK – still well below Par & going […]
Well, just over ten months ago, the whole of the United Kingdom voted in a referendum and made a historic decision at last to leave the EU – the first country EVER to do so. One of the biggest drivers for that was the glaring fact that that democracy challenged outfit could not be […]
RESULTS LOCAL ELECTIONS 2017 [BBC : Taking account of boundary changes] Conservatives: GAINED 562 councillors GAINED 11 Councils Labour: LOST 382 councillors LOST 6 Councils LibDems: LOST 41 councillors LOST 0 Councils UKIP: LOST 145 councillors LOST 0 Councils Councils gone to NOC: DOWN 1 Councils Results from: all 88 COUNCILS [34 in England, 22 in Wales, 32 in Scotland] (Labour lost Glasgow […]
Korea location US 100meg bomb radii on North Korea capital London New York North Korean 15meg nuclear bomb radii on London or New York? Now, North Korea is increasing in the news and figures prominently in the headlines, doesn’t it? Yep, and for all the wrong reasons as well, eh? Basically, it is […]
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