by Austin | Dec 18, 2019 | Current Affairs
I was watching the news recently and one thing attracted my attention, the Metro mayor of good old Brum and former John Lewis supremo Andy Street, basically gave notice that West Midlands trains who won the rail franchise last year. Have operated such a dire service...
by Austin | Dec 9, 2019 | Current Affairs
I remember many years ago having a good chat to my father about why it is important to vote, whenever the opportunity presented it. The discussion was around the simple fact that at least in this nation, we have the democratic right to vote. Sadly in many nations this...
by Austin | Dec 2, 2019 | Current Affairs
Now to be fair, it might just be me, but at people actually getting a tad fed up with this general election. I mean it might just be my own jaded perspective but as the campaign seems to go on indeterminably, there appears to be that unique and sumptuously British...
by Austin | Nov 29, 2019 | Current Affairs
I can recall two occasions in my young life when I laughed so much that I was moved to tears, where quite literally I was unable to control myself. Once when I was about 15 when I retired into the dining room where there was a spare TV as the lounge was occupied by...
by Austin | Nov 25, 2019 | Current Affairs, News
One of the things that I have long since admired about the United Kingdom General elections, has been the uniquely British habit of allowing eccentric individuals to stand to be elected as Members of Parliament. To be fair I do not recall a single case where anyone of...
by Austin | Nov 4, 2019 | Current Affairs
I was moderately surprised this morning as I nibbled my morning bowl of cereal goodness to listen to Mr Nigel Farage, the one time leader of UKIP. And now the grand master of the Brexit party accuse the Conservatives of behaving like good little school boys and...
