F1 2017 Round 17 – the United States Grand Prix

Formula 1 returns to Austin, Texas, for the sixth time, and for the second time the venue could see Lewis Hamilton crowned F1 champion – if results go his way. When the Circuit of the Americas was designed, inspiration was drawn from several other venues, including Silverstone’s famous Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel sequence, the Senna Ss at Interlagos, […]

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I was Accosted…

So I’m walking home from the station on Friday, and I have my headphones in, grooving to some tunes (ok, I don’t groove in public, but you get the idea), when a man starts waving at me. At first I thought, ‘do we know each other?’ However it became clear I had no idea who […]

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The Gun Response

This is the final part of a little discussion I’ve been having regarding guns, with one ‘Virus-X’. This final part of the exchange formed my final comment to him on this matter, which firstly got put into a moderation queue (not necessarily unusual), and then disappeared. I therefore post it here, and have also archived […]

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Guns and Stats – Comparison of Nations

Following a recent discussion over the pros and cons of gun control measures (and the wider question of whether guns actually make a location safer), I feel compelled to offer up a few facts… Homicide Rates Data collected from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC for short) reveals that the USA had […]

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The Last Jedi Trailer

The final trailer for The Last Jedi has dropped, and after a few days of deliberation and thought, it’s time to offer my impressions of the trailer and what it might mean. The First Order is going to bring the big guns. They’re pissed at the loss of Starkiller Base and want revenge. Their walkers […]

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Film Reviews – My Little Pony

Ok, that’s a little unfair. As a matter of fact, I am going to ‘fess up – I enjoyed this movie. Judge me, don’t judge me, I don’t care. The film (and in fact the show) is not the standard sort of fare for this sort of movie. A lot of kids’ shows and films […]

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What Defines Your Freedom?

Is freedom the right to have one of these? Or the right to do this… … without fear? Some (and I must emphasise, only some) of the Americans I know insist that the Constitution be treated as sacrosanct, their right to bear arms immutable. Is it morally correct to regard the right to have virtually […]

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