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So on waking up this morning I realised that it’s happening tomorrow, a whole month without eating any meat. And although Vegtember hadn’t really started yet, I had already started getting rid of all the meat in my fridge so had a vegetarian packed lunch today.
So therefore I thought I had to go out with a bang tonight and have something that’s both meat, and treat. Steak it is them. Now steak is not my very favourite food, I’m a big fan for sure, but there is other stuff that
Continue reading Vegtember: Last (meaty) Supper!
So what is Vegtember then? Put simply it is a Vegetarian September, Why? Well my union the CWU is part of a green project called Climate Solidarity. This is a coalition of a number of Trade Unions which includes the PCS, the NUT, the UCU, ourselves and the charity COIN. The idea is to set up a number of climate change action groups in which individuals will look to reduce their personal carbon footprint at home or at work.
The CWU’s national youth committee is one such action group, and as
Continue reading Vegtember: So what is Vegtember?
Have you ever had that feeling when watching a film, that it seems like it was made specifically with you in mind. I did, earlier today, when I went to watch Scott Pilgrim versus the world. It was amazing, really, really great.
Now I have to make a little bit of a confession here, I’m a bit of a nerd. Alas it’s true I really am. I have a passing understanding of the rules of “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons”, I know how the rank structure of the Federation in Star Trek
Continue reading Scot Pilgrim Versus the World review: It Rocks!
Following the excellent and thought provoking blog from my colleague Matt Edwards, entitled “In defence of bank charges.”, I though I would post a blog response with a different view.
My politics is based massively around my ideas fairness, and it is on this crucial test that I think the bank charges fall down, and fall down in a big way.
Firstly the problem as I see it is the value of the charges is so often out of all proportion to the nature of the “offence”. Put simply the punishment does
Continue reading Bank charges are not fair.
Having recently blogged about why I think the coalition is most likely going to last the best part of a whole term of Parliament. It is now time for the companion piece about why I am not even sure it would be desirable to bring down the government quickly. On balance, I really want to see the back of the coalition as soon as possible and if they fail quickly, proving my last blog wrong then I would be delighted. But if that doesn’t happen here are a few reasons
Continue reading Some silver linings if the coalition does last.
Special thanks to my friend Matthew Travis for pointing this out to me. It appears from this irrefutable documentary evidence that Francis Maude and Emporer Palpatine/Darth Sidious are in fact one and the same person.
See for yourself, here are some pictures of Palpatine/Sidious:-
Emporer Palpatine
Darth Sidious
Now let us compare this to Some pictures of Francis Maude:-
Former Tory Chairman Francis Maude
Apparently both Michael Gove, and George Osborne applied to become Sith Lords but were denied entry on the grounds that they were far, far to evil to actually be
Continue reading Tories = Dark Lords of the Sith?
My recent blog on why I think it is a mistake for the left to be focussing so much on the Liberal Democrats generated some interesting debate, on the blog, on Facebook and on Twitter.
Much of this debate focussed on the need to attack the coalition to try and bring it down as quickly as possible. Now I cant say that this would be anything other than a hot damn good thang! But I feel the need to write a couple of quick blogs about firstly how likely I think
Continue reading 5 reasons why the Coalition will last.
A significant trick will have been missed by the left if we focus all or our ire with the coalition on the Liberal Democrats. The sense of almost visceral hatred, at the alleged betrayal is for my money misplaced and is meaning that the left are missing a trick in respect of who the enemy really are.
For my money the Liberal Democrats really didn’t have too much choice after the election given the mathematics of the parliament. There really wasn’t a credible possibility of a workable Lib/Lab coalition and for
Continue reading Time to stop wasting time hating the Lib Dems.
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