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 [...]
Last night whilst watching television I stumbled across Supernanny whilst channel flicking and have to admit in being quite shocked at how out of control not only the kids on the show were, but also their parents. OK I know it’s a television show and no doubt the producers etc are looking for parents who [...]
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 [...]
I think by now we’ve all heard about the twelve year old boy and his fifteen year old partner who have had a baby last week. To be honest I really don’t know what to write about this. The gravity of it makes me feel overwhelmed. We’ve got into a situation where children are having [...]
An Obituary printed in the London Times – Interesting and sadly rather true. Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He [...]
And again we see the political correctness stupid bus come into town! When is a school not a school? When it is “a place for learning”. Watercliffe Meadow Primary in Sheffield has adopted the new phraseology because it thinks that the word school may have negative connotations for pupils and parents. – Times Article, 3rd [...]
I don’t really have time to stop and write a post now but kinda wanted to get this message out there as soon as possible. On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the Freedom of Information Act. This Thursday, 22nd Jan 2009, MPs are voting [...]
The government announced that children as young as five will receive compulsory lessons in sex education and the dangers of drink and drugs. The initiative is part of government plans to cut the awfully high rate of teenage pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases. In their first years at primary schools children will be given basic classes [...]
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Funny how events can change your day completely around. I was going to blog on another item when two events happened at once and I forgot all about blogging! However my attention was drawn to the news article (links at the bottom of this post) about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand leaving abuse on Andrew [...]
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In recent months and years, social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo, have become the norm of our internet based lives. Before Facebook, the UK had a semi-social-networking site in FriendsReunited which basically helped people track their old school friends, but was nowhere as popular Facebook. I was reluctant of signing up to Facebook [...]