Trust a Tory to use hysterical, inflammatory language, when describing vulnerable, desperate people. Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary who was sacked by Liz Truss for security failings, and then reinstated by Rishi Sunak a few days later (despite further details of security failures), called migrants ‘invaders’, and thus demonstrated she is a cold, cruel excuse […]
No sooner had I responded to David Thiessen’s little jab, he replied. Read here if you want, but suffice to say, it is more of the same. It is dishonest. It is distorting the points I make – and as ever, David is too lazy and disrespectful to use my name (it’s a three-letter word […]
Humanity never fails to amaze me at how long it can sink. I didn’t know that harassing and spying on victims of terrorist attacks was a thing, but it appears it is, and it appears it is do with making money. To quote from this BBC News story: Conspiracy theorists, who claim UK terror attacks […]
David Thiessen has fired a shot at a recent post of mine (even though it didn’t involve him, what a shock). His post waffles about objective evidence, and then spins off into the topic of morality, which I didn’t even bring up in my most recent riposte with Silence of Mind. He’s picked a bad […]
Another day, another epic and misleading rant from Silence of Mind. This time, he fired shots at the Spartan Atheist, and a post that brilliantly satirised the belief systems of fundamentalists. As ever, I feel the need to preface this, with the point that I do not know where I stand on God, Gods, and […]
It’s nearly time for Halloween! Beware the Ides of October, If you’re a Tory! Kwarteng gets Kicked Out The on-going meltdown of our government continues. Somehow, Liz Truss is managing to be worse than Boris Johnson (a remarkable feat), and she recently sacked her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, after just over a month in the post. […]
From London and the south of the country, all the way to the Highlands of Scotland. Next up is a small station with a lot of character. The small-yet-gorgeous Scottish town of Aviemore sits in the Highlands, not too far from Loch Ness, and it is surrounded by sprawling countryside and huge, rolling green hills. […]
Until I met my wife, I don’t think I’d heard of Fenchurch Street, though it is on the original Monopoly board game, so I might have noted the name, without ever truly being aware of this small yet mighty London terminus. Fenchurch Street is the terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, also known […]
Liverpool Street Station is not the first London terminus to replace a previous station. The GER (Great Eastern Railway) had been using a station called Bishopsgate, which they inherited when they bought out several other companies, to serve as the end of what would become the Great Eastern Mainline. In a fairly unique and important […]
The history of the UK rail network is long, fraught with challenges, and filled with grand designs. Nothing encapsulates this history more than the epic, often huge, Victorian-era termini. London is an amazing city for train enthusiasts around the world, and through this page, I’ll be taking a look at a few of the reasons […]
In the not so distant future, I will have been blogging at Meerkat Musings for TEN years. That's sort of scary. I never set out to reach a milestone like that, but ten years on, Meerkat Musings feels like my home-on-the-web, so to speak. #BloggingCommunity
Now, this I find difficult. Of those I have tried, which admittedly is not many, I am rather fond of McDonald's fries, though Burger King's have grown on me.
Do you vote in political elections? You can bet your ass that I vote! Ever since I was a young meerkat, I have regarded exercising my right to vote as an important civic duty. I always vote in general elections, and try to vote in local elections too. I can understand why some people abstain, […]
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