Sun,27 Jun 2010
132
Certain places tend to be associated with certain events or people. For example you might think of Liverpool with the Beatles or with football. With Oxford, you might associate it with the university ...Read More
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Tue,20 Apr 2010
237
Trust is a very emotive subject and concept. Yet it is something that we do everyday, usually without thinking about it. If you do think about trust, there are hundreds of things that we do each day w...Read More
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Sun,28 Feb 2010
162
For the past two weeks, we’ve had the Winter Olympics taking place in Canada. Not as big as the Summer Olympics sure, but still an important world event, where men and women come from all over the wor...Read More
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Thu,31 Dec 2009
231
As I write this, it’s New Year’s Eve once again and we’re about to end one decade and start another. Is it really ten years since the Millennium began? They say, “Time flies” – more so the older you g...Read More
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Mon,23 Nov 2009
406
A year ago we were in the middle of what some commentators were describing as the “Credit Crunch” or “The Financial Crisis” and we were in a recession. Since then things have not improved that much wi...Read More
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Thu,17 Sep 2009
553
After a month’s break, including going on one of the best holidays ever, I’m back. Sadly, I’ve had to come back down to Earth with a bump! The thing that I’ve noticed in the past month on the news is ...Read More
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Wed,29 Jul 2009
399
Back in the 1960s and 70s, the country of Afghanistan was part of the “Hippy Trail”, which the Flower Children and the drop-outs of Western society would pass through on their way to India. Some were ...Read More
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Mon,29 Jun 2009
449
Unless you live on another planet, you can’t help have noticed from the amount of media coverage on the TV and in the newspapers, that entertainer Michael Jackson died on Thursday 25th June 2009. Like...Read More
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Mon,25 May 2009
350
Dog food, a trouser press, a toilet seat, a television, a duck house, a moat, and manure. Not something on the conveyor belt on The Generation Game, but some of the crazy things that our MPs have been...Read More
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Mon,27 Apr 2009
358
April has been a tough month for the police in terms of negative publicity. Right from the very first day the Police in London especially, were in for a tough ride with the G-20 summit, taking place i...Read More
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Tue,31 Mar 2009
316
Unless you live outside of Britain, you won’t have escaped the immense amount of media coverage on the death of Jade Goody, in the past few weeks. She died last week of cervical cancer after being dia...Read More
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Wed,18 Feb 2009
408
For the past two weeks virtually everywhere in the UK has had some snow. Usually most places in the UK do get some snow in the winter, but this time everyone got a lot of snow and some places had more...Read More
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Sat,24 Jan 2009
334
So another year begins and we have another president of the United States - President Barack Obama. So last Tuesday we had the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States of America – supp...Read More
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