This post: circa 1,600 words, estimated reading time: 8 minutes. (Full content, inc. references, 3,300 words, 16 minutes. Intersectionality and criminality; profiling Yusuf. (Note. This was for a Y3 university assessment. Yusuf (and his family) is a representation, not a real person.) This essay considers the meaning and extent of intersectionality, its relationship […]
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This post: circa 7,800 words, estimated reading time: 40 minutes Intro This posts looks at web designers in and around St Helens, Merseyside, but can apply in practice to any town. It’s pedantic and at times harsh, even snarky. Enjoy! I was and am umm’ing and arr’ing about starting a web design company locally, so
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This post: circa 1,250 words, estimated reading time: 6 minutes Prelude intro I personally don’t wholly trust the Covid-19 vaccines, any of them, though that’s as much to do with caution (because I understand their development and delivery) as paranoia. I’ve written as much in the past. However, the world (read governments and big business,
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This post: circa 1,750 words, estimated reading time: 9 minutes That time of year when… Actually it is more like “that time of year AGAIN”, as it feels to me like Virgin are putting their prices up twice a year now! They are about to up our bill another 5% – but offering new customers
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This post: circa 1,500 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes Opinion I haven’t read the details – yet – but my gut reaction, based on brief day one news, is we have been right royally stitched up and both the fishing industry and Northern Ireland have been sold down the river! This is my personal
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This post: circa 9,500 words, estimated reading time: around 35 to 40 minutes Intro If you’ve not played this game, I thoroughly recommend it, it’s great fun. If you want to skip a lot of the reading, I’ve made added a Graveyard Keeper playlist to youtube, covering the first 19 days. I don’t talk,
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This post: circa 1,400 words, estimated reading time: 7 minutes Laughing at anti-vaxers The Guardian ran an article today, entitled, ‘Covid-19 vaccines: why are some people hesitant? (part one) – podcast‘, and shared it on Facebook. Some of the comments, one in particular, annoyed me a tad! I rather doubt they had even listened to
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This post: circa 1,200 words, estimated reading time: 6 minutes Working class plundering Remember the UK riots of 2011? The press and media coverage, the anger, horror, and fear projected by “the establishment.” The horrendous cost to the economy. I dare say sociologists are still picking over the bones of it. Cost to the country,
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