EU flag British prominent pro-Europeans won’t have it that there is a life outside of the European Union, will they? Some people however can still remember when we weren’t actually in even the Common Market, or to be more precise EEC (the baby form of the European Union), because we didn’t want to join in […]
Most British people have no idea how we got into the European Union, or what it means, but know only that there is big support for us to cancel our membership and leave (and that the United Kingdom Independence Party are pressing for us to do just that). The United Kingdom is supposed to be […]
Every year it come around again without fail doesn’t it? Christmas. Most of us dread it of course don’t we? We daren’t admit it though would we, as the stigma of Charles Dickens’ Scrooge would stick to us like glue? It starts very early in the year nowadays. It is supposed to be in December […]
“I’m going off on holiday – I haven’t been away four times this year yet”. “Who is going to run the Country then?” “I’ll do that while I’m away”. ”But you’ll be overseas, so a long distance away, and you won’t have much time surely?” “Look, running the Country has never been a ‘fulltime’ job […]
We have all heard of the YMCA haven’t we? But if challenged do we really know what it is? What it is about? Where it is? What it does? How big it is? Well, not really. Yes, we all do know about the song though – YMCA the essential song for the crowds at the […]
Dandy was a Springer Spaniel who died a couple of years ago – 13 years old, quite aged for a dog of course. My wife described him as the ‘dog from heaven’, and he was! Risking life and limb I scattered his ashes into the sea at the end of the beach groyne opposite our […]
The mild start to the election campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections may have largely passed you by if you live in the UK? Why is that? Perhaps it is because our main political party players are running scared? Scared of getting a trouncing that is. Keeping things low key perhaps? It’s all going […]
Wine Producing Countries In the olden days the Brits drank good wine. Not the general masses of course – the serfs made do with beer – but the aristocracy. But they didn’t buy it here (there were no Off-Licences in those days!). No, they simply raised a small army and boated over to France, kicked […]
Proposed venues Ash Shamal, Al Khor, Lusail, Umm Salai, Al Rayyan, Doha, Al Wakrah One of the Doha stadiaQatar Bid Logo 2009 Spain winners of World Cup 2010 in South Africa The football world was gobsmacked when three tears ago Sepp Blatter announced in Zurich that the 2022 World Cup (the 22nd) would be held […]
The World has witnesses for some days a dreadful situation in Egypt, with hundreds of people being killed or wounded in military attacks in the capital Cairo (population about eleven million). The media are adamant that a massacre is taking place – but what is the truth? Certainly the Army have the upper hand; they […]
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