Changes again at Ebbsfleet United, as after 5 years of ownership by the MyFootballClub Society they are to be sold to a Kuwaiti-based consortium. This should see Ebbsfleet’s ongoing financial troubles cleared, with a commitment to playing budget and ground development. This is good for both Club and Society and I hope both can find a path to prosperity. […]
Yesterday a story hit the news about the guerilla stickers people have been placing on the tube, on maps, appending them with wry or sarcastic comments, or nonsense versions of place names. I have no idea why this appeared yesterday, given they’ve been around for some time, at least a year and a half. I […]
The London Metropolitan University / UK Border Agency has been in the news recently, but unless you are inside Higher Education, the significance of this might be lost. I want to give my view on what’s going on, especially for those of you who aren’t in HE. I also would like people to sign the […]
Social networking is bread and butter stuff now, with any number of ways to connect digitally to friends, share interests and poke fun at each other. But back in the 90′s, long before Facebook and Twitter, people used Bulletin Boards. Originating in the late 70′s, these were online communities of their own, often consisting of […]
Over the years I’ve seen many of my favourite books made into film, sometimes well, sometimes not so well. About 5 years ago I mentioned a couple, and I intended to follow up with a description of some of them. Since then, we’ve seen HBO in particular changing the game by getting excellent scriptwriters to […]
