SIR BOBBY ROBSON

BRIT NEWS: Sir Bobby Robson has died. I never agreed with all he did for football. One of the first to buy foreign players for his team, in my view it was the game’s death. A team that carries a city’s name, but has few players from there is a fraud. And the massive increase in pay and spin-offs turned the game into a business. This said, his career as a football manager held disappointments and marvelous victories in a rollercoaster ride that kept the nation enthralled. And he was also a true gentleman – rare in the business of football. For this he will be sadly missed.

(c) Anthony North, August 2009

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THE MOLES

BRIT NEWS: The Home Secretary has been asked whether Al Qaeda sympathizers could have infiltrated MI5. Such a possibility will cause the obvious shock and horror, especially when I’d say it is inevitable. Such organizations cannot possibly be as secure as we would like, and throughout the history of spying, the Mole has been a regular visitor. Don’t people remember the Cold War, the double agents such as the Burgess, Philby, etc? So if we’re told there are no ‘sympathisers’, I’d advice them to look again.

(c) Anthony North, August 2009

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EDUCATION PROBLEMS

BRIT NEWS: A teaching union blames parents for problems in schools. In many cases, quite true, but those parents are the first generation who were taught rights over duties by those same schools. The words pot, kettle and black come to mind.

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ROUND AND ROUND

Round and round destruction goes,
When will it end? Who knows;
Societies crumple thru illicit thought,
What a nerve, ending in naught;
Maybe we dream of the perfect world,
waiting for Utopia to be unfurled?
Problem is, if we could ever afford,
There’d be nothing to do!
We’d end up bored

© Anthony North, April 2009

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MEDIA FREEDOM

We are what we know, and we know what the media allows us to know, but how free is this process? Advertising has become the biggest income for the media. So answer me a question: would you advertise in a media-form offering a message you didn’t like? Of course not – and that’s how Big Biz makes sure you only know what they want you to know.

© Anthony North, April 2009

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LABOUR SLEAZE

BRIT NEWS: Another minister - Geoff Hoon - caught up in a claims row. Bring it on. Of course, such things always go on, but as with the dying days of the last Tory government, the media gets stuck in and won't let go. Problem is, why do we have to rely on such media power?

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BE STILL

Be still as you run so fast,
Be still, escape is in your grasp,
Be still as you fight it out,
Be still, you’re the last redoubt,
Be still as you absorb, are hooked,
Be still as you read the book

© Anthony North, April 2009

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