A report written by Unicef has slammed UK for failing its children due to parent’s obsession with materialism, who are paying more attention on buying their children products rather than spending quality time with them . The report comes in the same week the massive new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre opened at the 2012 Olympics site and Christmas products started appearing in stores up and down the country.
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Today was the day the world ended, not the actual world because then you wouldn’t be reading this; but instead it was the end for the News of the World (NOTW). Although from all the fallout from the sudden departure from our staple Sunday breakfast reading, you could have been mistaken for thinking it was the former. One can only imagine what the NOTW headline would have been on a day such as this.
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Louis Therox is well known for his interactions with the wierd and wonderful people of this world. From his now well documented interview with the late white supremacist Eugène Terre’Blanche to the ultra orthodox Christians of America.
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“What does fashion actually do? It sells you a suit made of a material that could last five years, and as soon as you have bought it tells you that you can’t wear it any longer because a newer one has already been created. The same principle can be used to sell anything. The motto of styling is ‘It’s Out’. As soon as one thing is sold they must invent another to supersede it” . Bruno Munari, Design as Art
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Football is the passion of billions across the globe, the one way ticket to fame, glory and riches and the dream of many young boys up and down the country. Lovingly known as the ‘beautiful game’ is it now starting to turn ugly?
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Bridgend is a sleepy little place in South Wales, I’ve passed through it once many many moons ago, it struck me like the rest of the small towns in Wales a place without any real purpose. This small town is now the centre of what is one of the UK’s largest suicide patterns with 16 apparent suicides amongst young people in the last year alone.
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Something below that I sent to the Guardian letters section (Feb 2007), it never got published mainly because it was a bit too long, my own fault.
“Damn you all to Hell” is the cry from Charlton Heston at the end of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. Tired, bruised and ultimately broken, Heston’s character has just realised that it wasn’t the apes to blame for the destruction of Earth, but actually the Humans. In perceiving a threat and blaming an enemy for something that his own kind had done, British society today is going much in the same direction. One that future generations will be damning us to hell for – not for the things we did, but for the things we didn’t.
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