May 2008 Archives

China seems to have been flitting across my personal horizon quite a lot over the last week or so.
We've all been moved by the coverage of the earthquake tragedy in Sichuan, with the focus on individual human stories managing to personalise so effectively the enormous, almost incomprehensible death toll.

I'm on the warpath. I make no apologies. If you can't use a blog to have a damned good rant from time to time, then what's the point of having one?
The target of my ire is the unbelievable, moronic idiots who managed to turn my morning dog walk today into a rather unpleasant experience.

It has been a while since we have had a local election in Liverpool that has produced much in the way of drama or excitement, but this year always promised to be different, and it did not disappoint.
The Liberal Democrats have had a tough year, dominated by the fall-out from the Mathew Street fiasco, and Labour seriously fancied their chances of resting the city away from overall Lib Dem control.