As I Saw It.

Articles about British life, culture and politics first published on my blog.

For the want of a handful of grit….

Last weekend it snowed, not a surprise at the tail end of December but the whole country was still thrown into chaos.

Wisdom of the ages.

Most people think the big media story of the past week was Chris Evans taking over the Radio 2 breakfast show formerly presented by national treasure Terry Wogan; most people are wrong.

This year make it your resolution not to make any resolutions.

We're three full days into the new year now, so how's the whole resolution thing going? Not well would be my guess; it seldom does. New Year's...

Farewell to a renaissance man in knuckle dusters

I heard about his death in the way I usually hear about such things, meaning that it jumped on me out of nowhere as I was doing something else. This...

Invasion of the Smombies

It's probably a bit early yet but I'd like to make my nomination for the word of the year, it is, drum roll please, 'Smombie.' A term minted to...

How I learnt to stop worrying and love Facebook.

Earlier this year there was a news story about Salisbury cathedral having to move a statue because dozy tourists glued to their smartphones kept...