Public Address 

It’s no secret to anyone who reads this blog that I am a supporter of LBGT rights. I find it very sad that in today’s world you can still be denied jobs, marriage and, in some cases, even your very life for something you didn’t choose. Even in supposedly developed countries, coming out as gay […]

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Inclement Interlagos – the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix 

Well, we got there in the end. A race that started late, and was stopped more than once, eventually produced an event that was worth watching, largely because of one man – no, not Lewis Hamilton.  Hamilton himself drove serenely in appalling conditions, never really troubled by anyone. In the dry conditions of qualifying Hamilton […]

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What?! 

So I’m sitting on the train as I head to work, and as sometimes happens, I overhear a conversation. Today I overheard a conversation that was worrying on a number of levels.  A young woman was on the phone to one of her friends, talking about a party she was at, and a man she […]

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We now Return to our Scheduled Programming…

(Originally posted on The Nudge Wink Report) Last week I posted when I thought it was my turn to post, and it turns out it wasn’t. I poured my creative juices into my rant, and now I’m squeezing the lemons of creativity and getting only bitterness. So, what to say? There’s one gigantic orange elephant […]

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Democracy and Monarchy

I recently started a series of posts looking into the idea that democracy isn’t all that great – and I took a look at one possible alternative, the theocracy. This time around, I’ll be taking a closer look at the monarchy. What is a monarchy? It’s a form of government where a single individual rules […]

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F1 2009 Season 4 Round 8: Britain 

I don’t like this race, and after yesterday I like it even less (I should clarify, I love it from a spectator point of view, just not from a gaming point of view). I just don’t get on with the track, especially in wet conditions, which would prove to be my undoing. In practice runs […]

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F1 2016 Round 20: Brazil

We’re nearly at the end of an absorbing F1 season. This weekend sees the penultimate race, held at Interlagos, Brazil.  This 15-corner course has seen many a memorable race and decided the fate of several titles. In 1991 Ayrton Senna took a famous win, one that forced him through the pain barrier when he could […]

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