This is a collection of thoughts and statements about things that annoy me. I am a big, angry man. Hear me roar, or piss off and give me peace. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. One in seven kids takes a drink.

Not standing by idly while 17-year-olds are deprived of their liberty. Apologies to the Daily Mail. Was too good to resist.

Comment, Comics and the Contrary. Friday, March 16, 2007. Thursday, January 25, 2007. There really is no pleasing some people.

Thoughts on love, life and psychotherapy. maybe some confession, probably some thinking out loud, almost certainly some opinion. Saturday, April 26, 2008. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at. I seem to have run out of steam. I guess that means that Confessions has run its course. Inspired by the lively interest and debate this blog has previously met, I am gestating something a little more serious and a little less personal.

Saturday, July 26, 2008. There has been a tremendous earthquake in the form of an SNP. Over New Labour in Glasgow East constituency, the heartland of Scottish Labour. Dissolving the 13 thousand Labour majority from the last election to an SNP. The New Labour Party is hemorrhaging. I feel very sorry for G.

Sunday, July 28, 2013. This post just reflects the fact that the reasons for having this site have passed. What was a great, small, fairly global online community, with vibrant and often intense interactions, has now done its dash. Great memories and many fantastic connections. Monday, December 26, 2011.

I am disillusioned and bored with UK politics. I love it and hate it all in the same breath. BBC news annoys me and the newspapers frustrate me. I enjoy Paxman on University Challenge, but hate him on Newsnight. Thursday, March 29, 2007. On the need for a voluntary code for blogs.

Because we need an English Republic based on the principles of Individual Freedom, Solidarity, Democracy, Collective responsibility, Co-operation, and Openess. Monday, 18 December 2006. This is from Canadian TV. Find out he was actually part African. To get sensible reactions from Bushell.

Sunday, December 31, 2006. My top ten favourite Toynbee errors. 8 Polly copies a sentence. In her approximation of state spending.

Saturday, May 08, 2010. I stopped blogging last year, for various reasons. The main one was that a member of my family became suddenly and seriously ill. They did not want their illness made generally well-known and public. Since this blog at one time had a lot of readers, including people who know, or who know of my family, that meant I could not mention what was happening to my family here.