by Jack Barrow | May 7, 2016 | Current Affairs, Media, Politics
Boris Johnson is no longer Mayor of London. Sadiq Khan has been elected to be Mayor. The Guardian reported it thus: “Sadiq Khan has been elected mayor of London, reclaiming the post for Labour after eight years of Conservative rule and becoming the first Muslim mayor...
by Jack Barrow | Sep 21, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics, Uncategorized
“They even set light to your ears,” said Karl, a friend of mine with a rather natty flat top haircut. Actually those aren’t the specific words Karl used to describe his recent experience with the barbers, but that was the implication. He was describing how the newly...
by Jack Barrow | Jul 27, 2015 | Current Affairs, General Silliness, Media, Politics, Social Media
Users of The Internet were incensed today by a newspaper article that told the truth but was totally made up. The article, attributed to someone with a name that couldn’t possibly exist, told how people were surprised that government policy was turning out to be bad...
by Jack Barrow | Jul 8, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Twitter
Last night I was somewhat surprised to see Douglas Carswell, the only UKIP MP, on Newsnight again commenting on Inheritance Tax; a subject that I don’t really remember UKIP campaigning on in the election. This made me wonder why he was asked to take part in that...
by Jack Barrow | May 1, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics, Thoughts and Observations
We’ve been hearing about millions using food banks in every part of the country, we can’t pay care workers for their travelling time and the NHS is falling apart. Now we hear that it’s taken a week for us to send three helicopters to Nepal after an earthquake has...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 8, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics
Russell Brand wants people to show their protest by not voting. People have been not voting in steadily increasing numbers for decades and things have stayed much the same during that time. That form of protest has been labelled voter apathy with pundits claiming the...
