One of the main reasons for my entering into the blogosphere is to encourage a new generation of community activists to be active in their communities and to do so effectively. Continue reading →

… or to give the full title to a story in today’s (04/06) Southend Echo: “Homeless faced being kicked out if shelter”. Continue reading →

To be honest, I am not a big fan of the Sun newspaper. Continue reading →

I have long been aware that folk sleeping rough on the streets can be an embarrassment to the “authorities”, Continue reading →

Some who have been reading my past political leanings blog postings might have picked up that while I am currently ambivalent when it comes to supporting one or other of the political parties, Continue reading →

To misquote my favorite football pundit, Jimmy Greaves, “politics is a funny old game”, and nowhere is this more apparent than here in Southend Continue reading →

I was more grumpy than usual yesterday when news broke round the latest FIFA corruption scandal, Continue reading →

“Did you hear the one about the Irish referendum, the Scottish Church Assembly, the Ulster bakery and the English politician?” If you want to know more, check out the article: Continue reading →

For some strange reason, over the weekend I got to think about marriage from a number of different angles and now feel I have something worth blogging about, even if unsure where it will end. Continue reading →

One of the eye opening, mind boggling features of today’s Radio 4’s Today program was news reporting on the Prime Minister’s European visit Continue reading →