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 writing this blog post a little bit raw in the sense that I’m not going to do much in the way of active research before I post and I’m not planning to ‘edit’ this post once it’s been written. By that, it’s just a series of thoughts in no particular order. I think one [...]
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Mini Miss UK 2009 – this was to be the first US style beauty contest for young girls. The BBC followed three girls on their pursuit to win MMUK. First off, I must admit that it was hard viewing and I’m rather pleased that my friends and acquaintances agreed. There is just something uncomfortable about [...]
OK I’m a little excited as this is my 400th post to the Midnite Chronicles! It was a year or so after obtaining midnite.co.uk that I decided to have a quasi-blog in the form of a news page. It wasn’t really however until 2003 that I started to use it a little more. That said [...]
To Love or to be loved! Do we really know what love is? How do we know when we’re ‘in Love’ or when we are being loved? Is ‘rhetorical love’ love? Is Love an theoretical ideal? Is true love beyond our human reach? Is love’s equal negative emotion hate? Is love blinding? Is love binding? [...]
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 [...]
This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a long while. I have had several drafts and in my frustration to try to articulate myself I’ve delete them and started over (several times). Now I start with a clean sheet yet again but I am determined to get the words out. I have never [...]
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For a while now I have been storing ideas for posting to the blog. The only problem is there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of time to blog and more importantly research my thoughts and ideas. However, I hope with time these ideas will become printed text for this blog! As you [...]
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 [...]
If there is one subject guaranteed to divide opinion it is that of trick or treating. Most of the people I know are either against trick or treating or will go to all lengths to avoid opening the door to trick or treaters. According to a survey carried out by Norwich Union, 58% of respondents [...]