
Hooray! A new year! 6 months ago….
Yes, it’s the first of January and that means there is much to look forward to, perhaps this year, humanity will find a global harmony to live and work together, meaning the world will seem a far less disturbin… hang on….(looks at calendar)….what do you mean it’s the 5th of June? What the hell? Where did the last 6 months go?
It’s hard to imagine that so much can happen in such a short space of time to everyone in such a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things, after all, they say a week is a long time in Politics, so 6 months must be at least the equivalent of an ice age.
But events have indeed moved on since the end of last year, where the Euro was on the brink of collapse, people were losing their jobs left, right and any other point of the compass, and generally the feeling you had after watching the news was that of a chronically depressed lemming who got nowhere speaking to those Samaritan chaps.
It would be nice and easy to go off on a diatribe about how the government makes so many u-turns about their policies that you’d think they were stuck on roundabouts in Milton Keynes, how Rupert Murdoch has settled back to sleep nicely now the focus is away from his evil empire a bit now, and how things in the middle east always seem to heat up when no-one’s paying attention to them, but not this time. Continue reading →