If you follow me on Twitter then over the last few weeks you’ll have seen several tweets in reference to the alternative vote. On Thursday we have the opportunity to vote for a new way of voting for politicians in this country and whilst there has been division in all the political parties as to   Read More …

As I mentioned a couple of days ago I’ve been pretty excited for the release of ‘The King Blues’ new album ‘Punk and Poetry’ which was released yesterday and proving that my HMV pre-order was worthwhile the album turned up yesterday morning and it’s been on in the car, office and living room and I’ve   Read More …

This article on the BBC News site today details how a Christian couple were denied the opportunity to foster children because they didn’t believe that homosexuality was right (read full article here). Ignoring the pro or anti homosexuality debate this court ruling is ridiculous! In this country we are short of people willing to adopt   Read More …

Upon the recommendation of youth work magazine I’ve been tuning in to several episodes of Channel 4′s ‘The Joy of Teen Sex’; a TV show which aims to discuss teen sex problems and experiences using a team of experts in an open an honest way using their ‘sex shop’. If you haven’t seen it then   Read More …

I’m not a sentimental person. I have a few things I’ve kept such as cards from when I left Peterborough or nice e-mails people have sent me but I don’t really become attached to things…especially cars. I’m proud to say that I’ve never named a car nor really thought of it beyond something that’s practical   Read More …

So it’s almost a week since we began 2011 and so far it’s been a pretty good year! For me 2010 was great…beyond the obvious highlight of getting married I was also finally able to put out an album which personally was a huge thing…I don’t really care if people have listened to it but   Read More …

Whilst the amount of snow we have in South Cave is a pain (meaning that we have a dead boiler and that I’ve dug my car out numerous times in the last couple of days) it does mean I’ve been able to get some lovely photos. Here’s 3 of my favourites…

I’ve been holding off posting about cuts and protests for a week or so because I’m well aware that my political knowledge is pretty small. My knowledge of the cuts is based entirely on a variety of news articles and features on shows such as BBC’s Breakfast however perhaps this doesn’t put me in such   Read More …

Last night Channel 4 aired the programme ‘Dispatches: Fasion’s Dirty Secret’ (which you can watch here). During the programme a couple of undercover reporters investigated how fashion in this country is being made in sweatshops. One reporter took a job at a manufacturer in Leicester where he was paid £2.5o an hour, made to work   Read More …

During our short stay in Great Yarmouth last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Steve over lunch. Both me and Steve share an interest for what companies are up to and ethical issues and so naturally this was part of our discussion over lunch. Since then and along with some conversations with   Read More …

To a certain extent companies have always relied on word of mouth to promote their business….especially with new brands it seems that what the general public have to say can be the making or breaking of a product or store however as long as your majority were happy you could probably afford to upset a   Read More …

This morning I was up bright and early for a 8pm youth worker’s meet-up at Costa…so as I sleepily arrived and ordered a Fairtrade Americano I was disappointed to be told that ‘Costa no longer do Fairtrade’….although cheerily informed that it was all Rainforest Alliance’ This bugs me because whilst Nero refuse to do anything   Read More …