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  • Monopoly vs Freedom of Speech

    John Naughton lends his weight to the debate on social media and freedom of speech in his Observer article on the furore over Trump and social media but let’s his own bias get in the way. John Naughton goes back in time when the land grab for social media was an aspirational age when the…

  • Leicester City 1 Leeds United 3: Beautiful Violence

    I went into this match with trepidation – a high performing Leicester and a Leeds having difficulty finding form. The last time they met Leicester beat Leeds with ease. This time their marquee player Vardy was instrumental in the their first two goals that day, and scored their third one himself. However, without him, Leeds…

  • Newcastle FC 1 Leeds United 2: Doing the Double

    Leeds are very much the junior member of the Premier League with substitutes that cost nothing next compared to teams with subs that cost tens of millions. Injuries have plagued Leeds and continued to do so. Llorente who is part of the new stars straight into the starting eleven managed barely 11 minutes of only…

  • Photos – nature, places and family

    Photos – my photograph galleries – has been updated. My life in pictures page has been updated as links to a number of galleries including one for Europe and Malaysia I have visited including Kuala Lumpur, London Aquarium, nature including Autumn and winter, and Family (Kuala Lumpur and Blackpool and Cornwall.)

  • London Aquarium

    London Aquarium

    Selection of photos from London Aquarium, Dorset and River Thames

  • Leeds United 0 Brighton HA 1: Doing a Job on Leeds

    Finally in the 78th minute Leeds United put Brighton under sustained pressure. What is worrying is how the shots on goal have dried up. With opportunities eluding us Brighton’s early goal and solid defending did a job on us.

  • Is populism so evil?

    Traditional party politics in the UK are in transition with conservatism and populism dividing the votes. Both parties have learned the evils of liberalism when under Blair and Cameron.

  • Twitter: Wild West and Human Rights

    Two recent events on Twitter both highlighted some important questions about Twitter as a public square and how we respond as a society to it. The first one is Trump being banned from Twitter for what Twitter called a “risk” of inciting violence but not actually inciting violence. His rally calls to his more extreme…

  • Crawley Town 3 Leeds United 0. Pathetic.

    On tweet summed it up. Pathetic. There is nothing much pretty about these early giant killing matches. Brutal tactics versus free flowing football. Bielsa set up Leeds with a mix of first team and super subs. What was evident was that with Poveda, Davis and Shackleton we had a significantly shorter team than Crawley. A…

  • Insurrection

    Watching Vice President Mitch McConnell last night on BBC News eloquently portray how he could not stand by trump in his stubborn campaign to deny the result of the us election, instead calling it a fraud that had to be over turned – and how that was being played out by destructive elements in the…