Far too quick to play victim card
WOMEN today are unable to take a compliment, with many viewing any male attempts at flattery as harassment.
Have phone companies made right call at last?
I’M old enough to remember life as an adult without a mobile phone. When we finally got one (note “we” – it was one for the household, not an individual) it was so huge it would not fit in a jeans pocket, and we didn’t know too many people who also had them, so there was a good chance we were using it for emergency calls and occasional texts only.
No excuses to be bored this summer
“MUM, I’m bored! There’s nowt to do.” The hot weather may have disappeared after that minisummer thing we had a week ago, but it’s now less than six weeks to the summer holidays.
No need to bug us – we’ll do it for you
DO you know what really bugs me? Miniaturised, covert, surveillance devices. (1 comment)
Square is space to be proud of
I WAS in the Town Hall, the Members Room to be precise, looking out over the Town Square, thinking about what the content of my column would be this time. (1 comment)
Health needs to be tackled now
IF you have a few minutes to spare there is an interesting, and depressing, website that has just been launched by the Public Health England organisation called “Longer Lives”. (1 comment)
British public should have power of recall
ONE thing that people repeatedly raise with me is the sense that there is one set of rules for the rich and powerful and another for everyone else. (4 comments)
Sign up to save hospital services
IF you hadn’t already noticed, it was recently announced that the body which looks after the West Cumberland Hospital – the North Cumbria Acute Hospitals Trust – is now seeking to merge with another trust, after being forced by government to make cuts it simply cannot yet do. (2 comments)
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