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Racism and Political Correctness Causes Abuse

I believe racism and political correctness are material facts to this story. And while I take the point that the abuse is abuse and a crime is a crime regardless of race, creed, colour, sex and age...

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Ruzwana Bashir

I was wrong last week when I wrote about 1,400 children being abused in Rotherham. I said it was perpetrated by Pakistani heritage men preying mostly on venerable white girls. In the picture is Ruzwana...

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I want a 5 inch 6.

It seems my loving relationship is being tested. We’ve been together now for over 15 years and yesterday part of us separated. I sent my iPhone6 back. Now, that seems to be a mighty dumb move. The...

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Could you spot a conman? Meet Ken Gooley.

Could you spot a conman? I thought I could but I didn’t. Not for a while. Five years ago I met a man who turned out to be a conman. He conned many decent people out of tens of thousands of pounds,...

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Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

1. Change yourself “… You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “… As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age –...

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Tony Pillage, How Cancer Is Changing Me

Eleven days after his life changing and hopefully life saving surgery to remove a tumour the size of a tennis ball from next to his heart, I sat and talked with Tony Pillage about his experience of...

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Be Excellent…

I’ve been sad this week which is unusual for me. Getting me to shut up and stop being an unceasing cheerful sod,those that see me every day will tell you, is a tough trick to do. My wife, my kids, my...

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UBU

UBU is the name of my favourite beer. The intials U-B-U mean something as I recently found out. But that entertaining meaning was profoundly usurped after a meeting with a neighbourhood friend last...

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Anger does not serve. 

The Buddha said… “Anger serves nobody but your enemy.”  I like this idea. It is empowering.  You can spend you so much time angry or disappointed at the actions of others and all the angst you hold...

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Tough Day?

Weird isn’t it how we focus on insignificant little things, making them big. We lose sight of what’s important. Sometimes a little perspective can help. In 2005 I went to Everest Base Camp as part of a...

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