Always Chris

The Massive Unaware

This is a post you want to read if you find yourself moaning about the weather, yet unable to really believe that all the garbage us humans have bled in to the atmosphere in the last few hundred years is actually doing any harm.

Well, it is, of course. That goes without saying—you only need look at the glaciers for a shocking slap in the face of how bad the situation really is. But Enigin, as do most people More

3 Down, 387 To Go!

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keith Starmer, has announced that three Labour MPs, along with a Conservative peer, are to face criminal charges under the Theft Act. Whilst this in itself is welcome news it is a drop in the ocean when compared to the systemic abuse (some might say fraud) of the expenses system.

When the story broke last year in The Telegraph the public were quite rightly shocked at the scale of the claims and the sheer number More

Cashiers From Hell!

I used to live in Cologne, West Germany; It was generally a very pleasant experience, aside from something which happened without fail each and every time I visited the supermarket. At first I thought, It’s got to be me, surely this can’t be everywhere like the plague, surely this cannot be as bad as all that… but then, investigating the conspiracy more deeply–by now I was sure that was what it was–I was horrified to find More

Jeanette Winterson’s Strange Fruit.

In 1990, the BBC aired a brilliant three-part adaption of Jeanette Winterson’s, ‘Oranges are not the only Fruit’. It caused quite a who-ha at the time because it dealt with a young girl having a lesbian relationship; although, this was far from being the only controversial part of the story.

Yes, it did explore the pain and difficulty of becoming aware of gay/bi-sexual tendencies; but it also looked into religious matters and the danger of some churches. When does a More