Someone needs to press the reset button on Brexsh1t and fast. Today’s bad news brought you multiple downgrades from credit rating agencies, making it more expensive to borrow money. The pound and shares in key companies (airlines, house builders and banks) declined precipitously. The FTSE 250 (which better reflects the UK economy than the FTSE …
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Brexsh1t
Apologies for the title, but I’m angry because my country has been stolen by liars. It feels like there has been a coup. There are no tanks on the streets, but the prime minster has resigned because he tried to campaign on facts and was defeated by bare faced lies told by liars. I’ve seen …
Remain
I don’t suppose this will surprise anyone who knows me or who has seen my Facebook account, but I’m voting for remain in the EU referendum. I explicitly don’t want this to turn into a negative post (though some parts of it will be) so I will try and make positive statements. The pictures were …
Respect
Last Friday, I headed over to Parliament Square to pay my respects to Jo Cox MP, the member of parliament murdered by a right-wing fanatic, seemingly angered by her support for Britain to remain in the EU. For the last few years the poisonous media narrative has been about corrupt MPs only out for themselves, …
I feel empty inside
Today’s events are just horrible. I don’t know where all the hate in this country has come from. None of it is worth a life. I wish the hate would go away.
Sometimes in the rain…
Things go wrong. Sometimes you pound the streets all day looking for a story to tell. Other times you’ve been trapped by a deluge near your usual sandwich shop and a story presents itself. As I watched people running through the deluge I saw these guys approaching with copies of the local evening newspaper. I …
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