Litter – How Can We Keep Britain Tidy?

Watching BBC Breakfast a couple of weeks ago, I was pleased to see a prominent feature about reducing litter on Britain’s streets. I remember the glory days of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign in the mid-80s at a time when the organisation had just become a limited company. Teaching kids to tidy up after themselves [...]

Leaky Headphones

Regular subscribers will know just how much other people get on my nerves, but when these same dullards fail to realise they are inflicting their misery on everyone else, it gets me even more riled. One popular annoyance tactic amongst the mouthbreathing public transport population, seems to be either having awful headphones that pump more [...]

Public Transport Part Two – How Bad Can First Manchester Get?

You may remember some time ago, I did a little write-up of just how late my various forms of public transport were over a certain period of time. It was getting pretty ridiculous, so I decided to write the following to First Manchester just to try and find out why they offered such a consistently [...]

Public Transport – An Investigation

Many of you reading this will know about my regular grumbles with public transport. I’ve been commuting in and out of Manchester for the best part of a decade now, hopping on and off buses, trains and trams to get to various destinations, but this year, I decided to look a little bit more scientifically [...]

Social Media Exile

I was wondering to myself about social media and it occurred to me that it’s quite easy to waste a lifetime blathering on to anyone who will listen about what you’re doing and how you’re feeling. Not that long ago, all of that stuff was either kept private or shared on a case by case [...]

Northern “Epic Fail” Rail

Well, it’s a been a long time in the offing but after yet another train-based debacle, I can’t keep it all solely to Twitter and Facebook anymore – the Northern Rail rants are going large. For those of you who aren’t aware of Northern Rail, here is the intro on the company’s Wikipedia entry: “Northern [...]

This Is England

If an alien visited planet Earth today and took a snapshot on his space-Nokia of this once great country, he would probably send it back to the mothership with “Danger – keep off” attached. Where once this rich and powerful nation could tell the world what to do, through abysmal government and a growing population-wide [...]

Free Paper Littering

Okay, we’re off again. Why oh why do people think it is big and indeed clever to leave their free commuter rag on the train seat when they get up? Do they really think that another five people will come along and say “oooh I was desperate for the Metro today, thank golly gosh someone [...]