In light of the revelations about John Terry, I’ve been thinking about how much one’s private life should affect their standing in both society and employment. Does one’s private life have a responsibility to one’s public life? Does employment really have any grasp over the employee’s morals or ethics? It’s quite a hard issue to [...]
I’m glad germs cannot be passed via computer to computer, otherwise dear reader you would be on the receiving end of the cold I currently posses. I rather hope it goes quickly especially as I have great plans for this weekend. Well perhaps not great plans but plans all the same. Since taking the opportunity [...]
I just saw an advert on the television for the latest copy of the OK Magazine. This week’s magazine is the “Jade Goody Official Tribute Issue” with “1981 – 2009″ displaying at the top right and “In loving memory” at the top left. So there was me thinking I hadn’t heard that Jade had died [...]
Oh, world, how to start this post?! So … I haven’t posted in nearly a month. To say I’ve been busy does not do it justice – but I have been busy! Very busy but on many different levels. I haven’t really felt like blogging either! So what’s been going on? Well that’s not a [...]
The one thing I really love about Youtube is how the internet community interacts with each other through it. Youtube is pretty expressive and this is illustrated in the clips below. The first is by “sebastiano555” and the second by “GaiaAikman“. In this first clip we see sebastiano555 record the piano accompaniment to the song Gravity, [...]
I mentioned back in August, I stumbled across a book called Whatever by Michel Houellebecq whilst doing some research for a future post. Despite the research I was doing, events took over and I never got around to finishing the post. So this post is about the interjection “whatever” or rather “Whatev-ah”, society’s ultimate statement [...]
Yesterday, a 40-year-old woman and mother, Sharron Edwards, was spared jail after she pleaded guilty to having intercourse with a minor and offering to buy and supply illegal class A drugs. The recorder in the case, Judge Peter Fox QC, told Sharon Edwards she had been “seduced” by the teen adding that she had been [...]
In a recent poll, 20% of teachers would like to see a return of the cane into schools. Discipline in schools appears to be at a low and teachers ability to discipline unruly behaviour seems to be limited. I have a friend who is a primary school teacher and it really shocks me what she [...]
I stumbled across the ‘pregnant mannequin‘ story on the BBCs Video and Audio News page. A new lingerie shop has opened in Selby. Amongst it’s range it sells underwear for pregnant women. It is currently the only maternity underwear specialist in the area. When Amanda Bere, the owner of H and J Lingerie, put a [...]
Highlighted on the news this morning was about brides issuing pre-nuptial contracts to their bridesmaids in an attempt to control their ‘big day’. These contracts contain clauses about not gaining weight, falling pregnant and changing hairstyle to mention just a few. More than one in five women would opt for a contract and almost half [...]