"What do you mean don’t care?!" bellows this young lady holding a clipboard and wad of ominous looking leaflets. Okay, maybe my response should have been a tad more considerate and thoughtful when asked for my opinion on paedophilia, but I’m on my lunch break and trying to perfect the art of walking and eating a sausage […]
Scientology – The last bastion of the unevolved
On Sunday afternoon I had a pleasant stroll down Tottenham Court Road, London. Whilst walking through one of London’s popular shopping areas i noticed several hundred copies of L. Ron Hubbard’s most famous publication "Dianetics". These books were peering out of a window belonging to the Church of Scientology. I look up and see "68 Tottenham Court Road – The […]
Coping with the public smoking ban
For those of you who don’t know, the British government introduced a legislation whereby smoking is prohibited within an enclosed public space. Failure to comply with the new law will result in self-righteous remarks, reproving stares and the risk of a fifty pound ($100) fine. So basically a British smoker is one-step below a paedophile and […]
LiveEarth – London
For many in attendence LiveEarth wasn’t about showing your support for Al Gore’s fight against the terrors of global warming. Most were there to see some of England’s and the world’s most-popular, chart-topping acts. For others, it was to see England’s latest white elephant, the £800 million ($1.6 billion) Wembley Stadium. For the princely sum of £65 ($130) […]
Chivalry and nimbyism on the London underground
Despite the efforts of the media and gossips, the UK does actually four seasons at the ame time every year. At the moment Brits are enjoying (read suffering) the well-travelled rays of the sun. It is summer and it gets hot. It’s especially hot if you are 200 plus foot below ground and are packed […]
Home sweet home
A review: On reviewing this entry I came to the conclusion that this is (loosely speaking) a review of a town. My home town in fact. I’m not one for critiquing swelling metropolises (nor hamlets for that matter), but there’s a first for everything. Wikipedia is a multilingual web-based free content encyclopedia, which surprisingly contained […]