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How the Premier League Became One of Britain's Greatest Exports

The UK economy is struggling in many respects, but the Premier League is a real success story.... it is one of Britain’s biggest cultural and commercial hits. Premier

It’s the USA’s 250th birthday so I thought about places and things that American visitors to the UK should see.

Should I suddenly become very lucky and not have the UK police knocking on my door for a ‘speech crime’ for a change and instead have the travel fairy knock on my

Late June Allotment Update - Full Bloom

Oh man it's looking good down the allotment this June... We are harvesting lettuce, broad beans and baby courgettes and soon we'll have tomatoes too! Sunflowers

Street Photography –Open 24 Hours

Notes There is a beauty in the mundane that I don't think people appreciate in the moment, maybe in 20 year or 30 years we will think the signs and the technology

Is Trump doing a dump on Burnham’s head even before he’s taken office?

It’s likely that should Andy Burnham become UK Prime Minister he will try to align, against the wishes of the British people, more closely to the European Union.

Have We Hit the Ceiling on Minimum Wage?

Rishi Sunak's showing his true blue colours in The Sunday Times by arguing that we've reached the limit with the minimum wage... Politically this is not popular....

Weekly-ish Running Update: Four good runs!

Park Run... It was quite warm and I wasn't feeling in a PB mood at all so I headed out at an even 4.40 pace to start... Then a slightly slower second K and then

Starmer resigned

Dear Hiveans Finally Keir Starmer resigned - fantastic news. It's incredible how long this evil spineless creature could stay in office: gang rape scandal: Starmer,

Why Good Economic News Doesn’t Always Feel Good

Politicians love to big-up their country's GDP growth - at least if it's increasing - productivity up = good news. But GDP growth doesn't tend to matter to ordinary

Listing Again.... Life Priorities...

Who doesn't love a list, I certainly do! And in this post I am thinking about areas I can focus on of an evening working on a side hustle.. I think what used to

Is the Triple Lock Bankrupting Britain?

The Triple Lock is enormously expensive, yet politicians just aren't up to tackling it... This is unsurprising given that pensioners are more likely to vote, so

My Brother Sold His Flat - Small Miracles Do Happen

source The odds on my brother selling his apartment were 36.98% and yes he got lucky even if it was 20% below the asking price. This morning my brother received

Why Are Britain’s Great Pubs Going Bust...?

We all know that pubs are closing down at an alarming rate, but it's not just the shit ones, some of those closing have been around for centuries and offer an excellent

Weekly-ish Running Update... Hanging on in there!

I had a reasonable week's running - although I think I was mainly in recovery mode from my big Satirday night out wknd before last! Saturday Park Run defo NOT feeling

2026-06-17

Short-term, gas can go down but long-term it is going up on average until at least 2027 because global shortages affect the price. When they ban kids from the Internet,

Why Not Just Call?

Elaine Moore from the Financial Times makes a fair point: with everyone glued to their screens, pinging messages, emails, Slack posts, and WhatsApp notes all day,

PhotoFeed Contest - Landscape - Hayle Beach Surfers.

Hi everyone! Back with another surfing post, this time I headed to Hayle beach on the north coast of Cornwall! Admittedly I went to this new location with the hope

UK bans social media and YouTube for under 16 y/o. Bluesky and Hive probably not included in the ban. VPNs becoming useless?

UK führt eine verpflichtende Alterskontrolle für Social Media ein und verbietet den Zugang für unter 16 Jährige. Kritiker sehen darin, nicht nur eine

Forget War, Pandemics and Climate Change, Potholes are the real problem!

While the news these days is dominated by one international crisis after another, and plenty of political drama at a national level, what really drives everyday

#beersaturday - Bersmondsay Beer Mile in London

Come with me as I live blog my trip to the Beermondsay Beer Mile. I'm in London for work for the week (coming from Australia) and this is a the Sunday before I start