In the mid-90s I briefly took a break from playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 and worrying about who would win the musical face-off between Blur and Oasis to watch children’s television.
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Bitsa ramblings on travel – both time and otherwise

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Hopeful straws in Council wind

They are just straws in the wind and it could be nothing more than Stockholm Syndrome after spending seven
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Gammar Nazi puts the word out on language

Earlier this week, for reasons now forgotten, I was looking back over some old articles I had written and came across one which had the phrase ‘Occupied France’.
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Hard work securing jobs for Catholics

There was a glut of voices on the radio the other day, each eager to comment on ‘The Estate’, a TV fly-on-the-wall documentary about Ballysally housing estate near Coleraine.
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Your logic’s slightly flawed, Mr Lammy

TOTTENHAM MP David Lammy bizarrely claimed at the weekend that the race riots which convulsed his constituency last August wouldn’t have happened if only the parents of the rioters had smacked them when they were young.
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