Hope is a dangerous thing.

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” Red – The Shawshank Redemption I just woke up, not twenty minutes ago, shocked, bewildered and crushed by tiredness and this inescapable sense of doom surrounding the Conservative Party’s projected victory in this election. There were moments … Continue reading

Anything for a quiet life

For all of the words written, rhetoric delivered and ignorantly received I am wondering if anyone has discovered the answer to society’s problem.  It would seem that after all of this time, where an immeasurable effort was put into realising that there is a problem and were all doomed, somebody would have found a solution … Continue reading

We’re as ambivalent as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!

Dear Mr/Mrs Politician, Your time is up. We, the human race, would like to thank you for your input from the fringes of humanity, your thankless enthusiasm for self serving rhetoric and unquenchable thirst for power, immeasurable even using modern science. You do not qualify as a human on any more than a molecular level. … Continue reading

The Modern Man 3: A question of pub politics and digital ninjas.

Hello, I’m a modern man. My life is more exciting than yours and I’m going to tell you about it. In the online world of social networking you can consider me an authority on any subject raised for discussion. Politics, acts of terrorism and natural disasters are my bread and butter. Popular opinions are my … Continue reading

The Weekly Cardigan: 5

The death of irony, for a bit. I think we can agree that a more interesting week was had by all this time. Well, I say all but I’m referring directly to the people that bother to taken an interest in the act of reading the news as opposed to viewing it as arbitrary act. … Continue reading