The history teacher at my school introduced himself on our first history lecture by saying, “Everything I am going to tell you is wrong. I know that because everything I was told at university was wrong.” It seemed strange to us students who were used to holding instructors in awe, yet here was one seemingly…
There’s been a lot of criticism on a forum I frequent regarding the police forming ranks when they are criticised. This particular forum is rather right of centre, and follows the Cameron-led anti-police meme with some energy and a number of posters take great joy in criticising the police regarding corruption when they have no…
I mentioned in a previous blog that I’d been eaten by a snake, not something many people can boast, if indeed it is a boasting point. Anybody reading my posts will, no doubt, realise that I like mentioning experiences which are rather unusual, have happened to me, and are unlikely to have happened to many…
I struggle with the new nomenclature. I forget the current accepted term for various afflictions, races and such. I fail to see the difference between coloured people and people of colour, partly because grammatically there’s isn’t any. I read a lot of books and a slight change in the sequence of words, or a pleonasm…
I’ve spent a lot of time recently dressing female models. It’s not quite the thrilling task you might have thought. In fact, it has driven me to distraction. To keep my mind ticking over during the Covid-19 crisis, I’ve been trying to learn Blender 3D software. It’s not easy, but you learn so much, not…
I’ve got to go electric with my next car. That’s not quite right. It seems I’ve got to buy a car that does not use fossil fuels. My problem is I’ve got grandchildren and they are adamant that their grandparents should not strangle fish with plastic bags, stick straws down the throats of undersea creatures…
I’m feeling old. I suppose I am oldish, although I don’t feel it. Mind you, I can see why many men refuse to shave once they retire. Staring at the stranger’s face in a mirror every morning is a bit of a shock to the system. One of the problems with being over 65 is…
I used to enjoy Tomorrow’s World, the BBC’s flagship science for the masses programme. There were the usual ‘in five years’ myths perpetuated and some non-functioning revolutionary inventions which I can say from personal experience were put into production. I would encourage my eldest lad to watch TW in the hope that he would become…
It is unlikely that a motor race will have such a big impact on the public as the one Moss won in 1955. The Jaguar victories at Le Mans were reported in all the papers and there were even comments in the Commons I’m told, but Moss’ record-breaking win in the ’55 Mille Miglia took…
Sometimes an advert changes a genre forever, and this certainly goes for Mercedes-Benz use of the classic Janis Joplin track: “Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a . . .”