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LATEST ARTICLES ( 418 )

• On Tristham Hunt’s Refreshingly Open Views on Education…

  I’m not a parent and I haven’t seen the inside of a school in over a decade. However I have long held views on our education system and believe that it needs a... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Dion Dublin and Homes Under The Hammer…

  There are a few things that bind students, stay at home parents, the unemployed and those who work from home. One of those is that at 10AM on BBC1, more often... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On My Application to Be Next Portsmouth Football Club Manager…

  Dear Mr McInnes,You may not know me. In fact it is highly likely that you don’t. I haven’t been to Fratton Park in ten years. I used to be a Season Ticket holde... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On I Really Really Really Really Really Really Like You…

  Pop music. I haven’t heard a genuinely classic pop music song so far this year. I have heard many good songs but they’ve been in other genres. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On the Southend West Hustings as Organised by the Southend Echo…

  I know I said I was disengaging with blogging on the elections locally but I did go to the Southend West Hustings as organised by the Southend Echo this... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Meeting the 2015 Edition of the Fratton Yankees…

  Many many moons ago I had a blog that a few people would read. It was very similar to this blog actually (although this is read by thousands of people a week an... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Sometimes Forgetting About My Disability…

  I don’t talk about this much because it is really not much of a big issue in my life any more. When I was young the doctors, they weren’t sure that I’d ever... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Lord Ashcroft Polling, Iain Dale’s Predictions & Odds – Sheffield Hallam...

  STOP THE PRESSES. The Big Cheese is going down. After a dramatic new poll Nick Clegg’s defeat in Sheffield Hallam is all but certain. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Lord Ashcroft Polling, Iain Dale’s Predictions and Odds – Portsmouth South...

  Ah Pompey South. My old stomping grounds. Yes I know I never lived in the constituency but anyone who was brought up a liberal in the area would always gaze... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Comparing Lord Ashcroft, Iain Dale, Lib Dem Polling & Odds – Hornsey & Wood...

  Lynne Featherstone. Known to most as a fantastic grass roots campaigner and a passionate women’s rights activist. Known to me as someone who stopped following m... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Giving off a Bad First Impression…

  I give off a bad first impression. I always have, I suspect I always will. If you were ever to somehow source my school reports then they all follow the same... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Comparing Lord Ashcroft Polling, Iain Dale Predictions & Odds for Lib Dem...

  Lets look at a few of the seats where Lord Ashcroft has done some constituency polling and compare them to how Iain Dale thinks that the seat will go before... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Missing out on £40 Because of Talking Too Much Politics…

  Every so often here at The Rambles of Neil Monnery we (well what I mean by that is me, myself I) we get e-mails from companies wanting to advertise on the... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On UKIP’s New Alternative European Football Proposals…

  It has been a bad fortnight for English teams (and British – poor Celtic…) in European competition and after Everton’s shambolic defending against Dynamo Kiev... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On the Term, ‘hard Working Families’ and Why It is Diluting Labour’s Message…

  Ah ‘hard working families’ – they are the important ones. Hard working single people, fuck them. Stay at home parents, fuck them. People that work but don’t... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Why Stephen Lloyd Should Win a Second Term in Eastbourne…

  I’ll preface this by saying that I have never spoken to nor met Mr Lloyd and until a few hours ago I wouldn’t have been able to name him as the Eastbourne MP. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On Being a Liberal and Not Rejoicing at Jeremy Clarkson’s Suspension…

  Jeremy Clarkson is a sacking away from becoming the most valuable free agent in the history of UK television. Should the BBC bite the bullet and part ways with... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On the Sheer Arrogance and Attack on Democracy by the Broadcasters…

  ‘It’s The Sun Wot Won It,’ was the infamous headline of The Sun newspaper when John Major shocked the world (well maybe that is slightly over the top) and pulle... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On the Greens Wanting to Remove Natalie Bennett from a TV Debate…

  It is billed as a leaders debate but the Greens want(ed) Caroline Lucas to appear instead of Natalie Bennett for one of the two debates. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• On the £6,000 Tuition Fees That Labour Are Proposing…

  Well the NHS won’t win them the election so now it is time to pull at the heartstrings against the other party. So Ed Miliband says that under a Labour... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 CURRENT, SOCIETY