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Not surprisingly, I've been thinking over the last few days about my own exam results. Of course, unlike this year's pupils, I was l...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been called cynical. Cynical, negative and pessimistic. For a time, I was called it so often that I almo...

Perhaps it's my age, but I find myself becoming irrationally angry when I see a child on a motorised scooter or mini-buggy or somethi...

I found myself shouting at the radio yesterday morning. I was up slightly later than normal, so when I turned the radio on in the bathroom, ...

The internet is an echo chamber. I realise I’m not saying anything new here, but it seems that pretty much everything I read now has peopl...

I got unexpectedly called a racist over the weekend.  By a white guy. It was on the internet, obviously. I'm a member of a very frie...

I've been thinking a lot about anger this week. Well, to be honest, I've been angry quite a lot this week.  I was angry as a teenag...

"Brad and Angelina are divorcing?" Apparently the Russians have started dropping 'bunker buster' bombs on Aleppo as ...

Just another normal weekend in Nottingham. I don't care what everyone says: I think that there's nothing wrong with Britian. Ed...

Here’s a question for you: how well do you know the British National anthem? My reason for asking, of course, is because the new lead...

I’ve taken a dislike to the man who has the locker next to mine in the changing rooms at work (this is, by the way, the celebrity section of...

Back in 2008, Glastonbury announced that Jay-Z would be headlining the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night of the festival.  Cue uproar, wit...

I'm cross. Cycling home from work this evening, I came over the Suspension Bridge at the Trent and headed down on the final half-mi...

I've already written once about this year's batch of Christmas adverts, and before we're even halfway through November, here I a...

I was in Dublin with work on Tuesday. Since we’re not allowed overnight stops, this entailed a 04:45 start to drive to Birmingham to catch ...

I did this as part of the #GAZANAMES project.   The idea is to remind people that the victims of this war are not merely statistics or co...

" You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners " - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. On Wednesday evening, it took the State of...

I've been cycling to work for nearly a year now, and in all that time, I think I've only used my car to get to the office twice - b...

I've been cycling to work for about ten months now.  It's only four miles to work, give or take, but it soon adds up, and I've a...

A friend of mine commented on Facebook last night that she had just shattered the screen of her iPhone.  It's not the most earth-shat...