Articles tagged Random Thoughts:
Attitude Column: Are You Born Gay Or Is It a 'Lifestyle Choice?'
- 10 Aug 2013
This is my first regular monthly column for ATTITUDE MAGAZINE, Britain’s leading gay lifestyle magazine, which appeared in the August issue. Seeing as it’s been out a few weeks now I thought I’d give it a wider audience. I’ve always known I was gay. Well, when I say always, ...
A Weekend in Norfolk
- 4 Aug 2013
As a child I used to love mucking around in the garden. I had my own vegetable patch and loved to help my mother pottering around in her green house. But once I entered my teenage years, any affinity to gardening went out of the window. But last week something peculiar happen...
A Day in The Life Of...
- 31 May 2013
I sometimes think I lead a very strange kind of life. Today was no exception. Here are a few of the things I did today… My 8th Conservative Home Diary appeared EDP Column published Got recognised at Woolwich Dockyard station with the words: “Hello Mr Whale!” Did a ph...
A New Way of Measuring Economic Activity - Full Station Car Parks!
- 15 May 2013
In October 2008 I wrote a blogpost where I suggested that the number of spaces free at Tonbrige Station car park of a morning was a decent indicator of economic activity. In the five years up to then, the car park had been full, or nearly full by 8.15 in the morning. But after...
Mick Philpott: The Blame Game - Is It the Welfare State's Fault?
- 3 Apr 2013
When terrible things happen, the natural instinct is to seek an explanation, to find a reason for what happened. Sometimes there are no explanations. Sometimes there are no reasons. Sometimes bad things happen purely because evil people are at the centre of them. That is what ...
Cardinal Keith O'Brien: Time to Forgive & Let Him Find His Inner Peace
- 3 Mar 2013
This is the statement just released by Cardinal Keith O’Brien. In recent days certain allegations which have been made against me have become public. Initially, their anonymous and non-specific nature led me to contest them. However, I wish to take this opportunity to adm...
Have You Ever Met a Nice South African?
- 22 Feb 2013
I’ve never been to South Africa, which is probably just as well. I’d spend the whole time drooling. You see, I am that very unusual example of someone who finds South African accents rather sexy. Erotic even. That probably marks me down as some kind of linguistic pervert, but ...
Mystic Dale Has a 'Birds Eye' Premonition
- 22 Feb 2013
I was doing the News Review, with Petrie Hosken, on ITV’s THIS MORNING at 10.30 today and the final item was a picture of a ready meal of Steak and Chips in which a lady had found a dead bird. ‘What do you think of that then?’ chirruped Eamonn Holmes. Quick as a flash, I resp...
Who Will Next Face the Horse Heat?
- 15 Feb 2013
I was talking to a friend earlier, who has a loose association with the Contract Catering Industry. These are the people who supply schools, hospitals and the armed forces. We both agreed that those sectors might well be the next sectors to come under the scrutiny of the media...
Red Trousers Are Just Plain Wrong
- 2 Feb 2013
A few days I ago I tweeted about the fact that I had just seen a man wearing red trousers walking through Leicester Square. I’ve never understood how anyone who isn’t over 60 or Hooray Henry could wear them. But there was this seemingly normal looking thirty year old saunteri...