Die Hard With A Leaflet

The first full week of 2010 has seen the beginning of a slow-burning build-up to this years’  UK general election. I usually decide on the day who I’m going to vote for because I don’t like to give myself a headache if I can avoid it, but since taking a bit more interest in politics I figured [...]

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2010: The Year We Probably Do More Of The Same

So, then. Twenty Ten. The big 2-0-1-0. It all sounds very futuristic. 2001 sounded quite futuristic at the time, but then Osama Bin Laden went and ruined the entire decade by advocating the same crap us humanoids have had to endure since the beginning of our history. The decade past will most likely be the [...]

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I Gave It A Chance

I watched The X-Factor tonight. It wasn’t the first time I’ve sat through it, and it probably won’t be the last. But I still came away from it with exactly the same emotion overshadowing all others: frustration. On this occasion, I did things a little differently and followed the Twitter feed #xfactor while the show [...]

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