This week the Crawley Observer published the second half of their review of 2006. I already mentioned how part one (Jan-June) had totally missed the Tories taking control of Crawley council in May for the first time in about 30 years, but this week they have topped that. In December the Tories lost their majority […]
Entries Tagged as 'Newspapers'
Girls Aloud call for hypothecated tax
December 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Girls Aloud call for hypothecated tax · Music, Politics
Reading the article about Girls Aloud's New Statesman interview certainly brightened up my bus journey today. On the face of it there is no reason why they should not hold political opinions and want to state them and it hasn't stopped other entertainers like Billy Bragg. No doubt there will be those who sneer at […]
Tags: Newspapers
Double standards
December 8th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life
I would like to give a shout out, as I believe youngsters like him would have it, to my colleague Danivon, who would easily be Crawley’s best blogger if only he would pull his finger out, stop having a full and active social life and write more. This week he has written an amusing fisk […]
Tags: Brighton·Crawley·Hypocrisy·Local Papers·Newspapers·Tilgate
Kakuro
October 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Kakuro · Life
When The Guardian did a bit of a redesign of their G2 section, putting a Countdown section on the back page I decided to have a crack at the Kakuro puzzle. I tried one once before, with no success, but thought I would have another go – now that the Sudoku is no longer much […]
Tags: Games·Newspapers
Redwatch again
October 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Redwatch again · Politics
Todays G2 section in the Guardian had another piece about Redwatch – the far-right website. This time there is a “delegation of MPs and union activists” going to the Home Office to call for it to be closed down. Good luck to them, but there have been plenty of similar calls in the past, going […]
Tags: BNP·Newspapers·Racism·Redwatch·Trade Unions·UAF
Keeping it green?
September 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Saturday’s Guardian had a 100-page ‘green living guide’, stuffed full of information and guidance on how to tread lightly on the planet. I can’t help thinking that the message was a little undermined by the sheer size of the Saturday paper, with 166 ‘Berliner’ pages spread across 8 sections, a glossy colour magazine, 100 pages […]
Tags: Doh!·Global Warming·Newspapers
The pleasures of commuting
September 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Work
As someone who views commuting as something to be endured rather than enjoyed, I found this opinion piece in G2 a bit hard to swallow, even allowing for the fact that the writer is blind and therefore will have a different experience to me. I will admit that he does have a point that commuting […]
Tags: Newspapers·Railways
Broadfield Post Office
September 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Broadfield Post Office · Life
While we were away, being camp in Dorset, the post office in Broadfield re-opened, along with the newsagent, which has to be good news. I have not actually been in there yet, but I nearly did this morning. I have never managed a newsagent, or any other small retail business, but I still feel qualified […]
Tags: Broadfield·Doh!·Newspapers·Shopping
Crawley is well and truly on the map now.
August 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life
That video of the young girls flying off a roundabout in the playground at Tilgate has put Crawley well in the public eye, both here and abroad. The town already has a bit of a reputation as a ‘chav town‘ and this will do nothing to help. The original video had something like 2 million […]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Internet·Newspapers·Tilgate·TV
Fame and Fortune (part 2)
August 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Fame and Fortune (part 2) · Life
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that a Croydon-based free listings magazine wants to use some of my photos, I have now been asked by a globally-famous company to write a pre-publication review of a new book. Again there is nothing so vulgar as any sort of payment involved, but I do get a […]
