The End is really the Beginning

So long to the Tangerine Tyrant. After four divisive, difficult and incompetent years, Trump’s time as US president is up. The world is in turmoil, but it can breath a collective sigh of relief. Now the process of healing can begin.

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Football Manager 2021 – A New Beginning

It’s been a while since I have sunk my teeth into a new Football Manager game. I invariably return to the 2012 edition, which is familiar and to me, easy to beat. I’ve achieved it all on that version, but what about trying out the latest version of the series? With that in mind, I […]

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Free School Meals and Nuclear Weapons

Want an idea as to how much it would cost to provide free meals to eligible school children over the course of a year? £270 million. Want to know much the UK spends on nuclear weapons over the course of a year? Approximately £6.5 billion. £6.5 billion would fund free school meals for 24 years. […]

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Democracy vs God

Not for the first time, Paul of Blogging Theology has suggested that democratic rule is incompatible with religion. It seems that he is putting forward an idea he’s tried before, more than once. It also seems that Paul does not believe democracy can be a reasonable form of government. Indeed, one of the blog entries […]

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The Meerkat Muse – 13/1/21

Welcome to the first Muse of 2021! As we know, as soon as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve the world was reset and the horrors of 2020 were laid to rest… Oh wait. Alas, the passage of time and the ‘border’ between years is a very human construct, and Covid-19 doesn’t care. […]

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Epic Disdain

I’m flabbergasted. I’m reeling from some stuff I’ve read this morning. The defence of the Tangerine Tyrant is in a perverse way a beautiful thing, a sight to behold, and to despair at and laugh at in one go. When I see someone claim Trump to be a good man, I go to a certain […]

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The Legend of Zelda – 35 Years

Last year Nintendo marked the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros with a number of limited-time events (including the release of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy as part of a bundle set, and launching the addictive Super Mario Bros 35 on the Switch). I liken the Super Mario franchise to […]

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The Weird and the Weirder

In a troubling twist of events, autocorrect wanted the title to be ‘The Weird and the Weiner’. Ahem, wrong side… For reasons that I don’t fully understand, my underwear decided it would seriously ride up today. Maybe if I had photographic evidence… Ok, perhaps not. Anyway, the moral of this story is that I have […]

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Four Days in…

How is everyone? Did we all pass through the eye of the needle on New Year’s Eve and emerge, broken and weary, but emerge nonetheless into 2021? Actually, I can’t do 2020 again. I don’t know if any of us can. That wretched year is behind us, and surely only better times lie ahead? Only, […]

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