Category Archives: Opinion

Posts predominantly related to the views espoused by yours truly.

Tips to budget for Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

It’s that time of year where much of the planet decides to get further into debt for an entirely commercial and shallow event based upon a religious holy day that many of them don’t actually observe. For some reason in … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Opinion | Tagged Black Friday, Christmas, Christmas Spending, Consumerism, Debt, Presents, Sales | 3 Comments

The environmental hypocrisy of Prince Harry

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

In Britain this summer, hardly anything has made the news this summer outside of a few major stories. Brexit of course, various protests bringing London to a halt many of which are invariably environment related and the seemingly strained relations … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, News, Opinion, Travel | Tagged Environment, Green Issues, Hypocrisy, Life, Prince Harry, Private Jet | 7 Comments

Why our trains are on the wrong track?

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

I should be living around 35-40 minutes from the centre of London using public transport. As the years go by it is becoming less reality and more theoretical. In fact it can often take me 2-2.5 hours each way and … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, News, Opinion, Travel | Tagged Arriva Buses, London, London Euston, London Underground, Nationalisation, Overcrowding, Privatisation, Public Transport, Trains | 5 Comments

When two (spaces) are better than one

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

I don’t know about you but there are countless things that annoy me about modern life and one of them is the slow decline into the use of a single space after a full stop or period. Until the early … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Funny & Humour, history, Life, Opinion | Tagged fingerspaces, Full-Stop, Grammar, Period, Space, typewriter, writing, Writing style | 5 Comments

10 signs that you’re intelligent

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

A little while ago I was doing some research and by way of several non-connected links I ended up several websites away from where I intended to be and reading about intelligence. Dr Awdhesh Singh is an author of books … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Opinion | Tagged Awdhesh Singh, Clever, Intelligence, IQ, Life | 17 Comments

The 9 times Britain has left Europe and why the cycle will happen again.

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

Much of the world and indeed the country is looking on at ever ongoing Brexit situation. What many don’t realise is that Britain has always had a love-hate relationship with Europe and it’s largely due to geography and history. Around … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, Opinion, Politics | Tagged Brexit, Britannia, Cold War, EU, Europe, Napoleon, Roman, UK, WW1 | 1 Comment

Top 10 films of 2018

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

It’s become tradition that every year I do a blog post listing my favourite television programmes and films of the year. As for the big screen, I don’t think it has been a classic year either. I don’t think anything … Continue reading →