Following my husband’s gleeful purchase of an Xbox 360, and the fact that he has now started his new job and isn’t hogging it anymore, I’ve been playing some new and exciting computer games. (New and exciting to me. I appreciate the rest of the Western World was over this in 2009.) I really enjoy […]
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Do I hate the Olympics or not?
So the Olympics are now upon us, and the interwibbles are chocka with people having their five pence worth. Here’s mine: Good things about the Olympics Celebrating achievement is a good thing. I know it’s something of a cliché to go on about how the Brits are all snide and self deprecating, but as sweeping […]
Equal Marriage
A couple of weeks ago my husband wrote to our MP petitioning him to vote in favour of equal marriage. The letter he received back was much as you would expect from a Conservative MP: polite, seemingly open-minded, and leaving a strong impression that they weren’t going to take anything you had said into account. […]
Please shut up!
It’s pretty tempting to tell people to shut up when they’re wrong isn’t it? And, if you have the clout to let you do it, it’s even more tempting to make them shut up. On an individual level, stopping someone from espousing their poisonous opinions can be one of the ways of demonstrating to them […]