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October 2006 Archives

Lazy, dirty dog owners and hermaphrodites in anoraks

October 30, 2006 1:04 PM

WHAT does the holiday paradise nation of The Maldives have in common with New Brighton and Hoylake? Apart from beaches, that is…
Well, alarmingly, all three places are at great risk of disappearing under the sea if global warming and environmental degradation continue as fast as all the experts have this week been warning they will.
The sea defences along New Brighton’s promenades will be about as useful as a chocolate fireguard in a blaze if the briny continues to rise as the polar icecaps melt away.
And low-lying Liverpool city centre could also disappear. Where once you shopped for cheap tat in Church Street could, before the century is over, be part of Davy Jones’s Locker.

The trouble with pretending that God is dead

October 27, 2006 5:33 PM

IT WAS fashionable only a few years ago to assume that God didn’t really exist, or even that he had died.
How different things seem now, when religion of one sort or another is in the headlines every day.
God is not dead. His voice thunders out daily from the summit of Mount Sinai and shatters the cedar trees of Lebanon.
He is clearly alive in the hearts of great swathes of humanity. A curiosity about him is written into our DNA.

Nasty health nazis and the bifter ban

October 24, 2006 12:27 PM

THE anti-smoking health fascists are getting more and more excited that the day is soon coming when smoking will be banned in all workplaces – crucially including pubs, clubs and restaurants.
The spineless cretins who sit in Parliament voted the measure through earlier this year. It is due to come into effect in summer 2007.
It’s an outrage that such proscriptive action could be approved by legislators who dropped hook, line and sinker for the dubious medical evidence that smoking is bad for our health. Overall, I’m convinced it is not.

Rivulets of spite … and love

October 18, 2006 7:35 PM

7.15pm and at last I’m home after a very long day of office-based drudgery.
It feels like I’ve driven through a hurricane all along the beastly M53.
With a sigh I pull in by the kerb near my flat. It is cold. The weather is still nasty.
The rain is hitting the pitiless cobbles of New Brighton and forming little rivulets of spite.
I’m about to splash off home when a plaintive voice catches my ear from further up the street. Two voices, in fact…

The soundtrack of a bitter and twisted man

October 17, 2006 4:38 PM

SO I’m driving along the hateful M53, past the Satanic smokestacks of Ellesmere Port and on towards the chainstore Hell that is Cheshire Oaks retail carbuncle.
Suddenly a song bursts out of the cassette player and lifts my spirits.
It is Bonnie Tyler singing Total Eclipse of the Heart. I sing along to it with passion (well it is a very passionate song) bouncing in my seat as I go…

Modern life is tough – so laugh but don’t sneer

October 13, 2006 6:47 PM

WHO am I to argue that we are living through unusually horrible, hate-filled times?
It certainly feels that way, though…
Especially as we come to terms with the revelations from court that a British Muslim – a convert from Hinduism – plotted a wave of terror bombs in the UK and America.
Dhiren Barot admitted planning to explode a “dirty bomb” in Britain, the country that has been his home since the early 1970s.
Make no mistake, these are tense, nasty times, nationally and internationally.

Piercing a baby's ear - the link with parental stupidity

October 9, 2006 3:37 PM

IT was insensitive, of course, for Jonathan Ross to link the stupidity of some of some of today’s parents with their council estate backgrounds and to joke that they shouldn’t be allowed to have kids.
It was not nice of Ross – reportedly paid £18 million over three years by the Beeb for his "skills" in lightweight chit-chat – to make such remarks in his banter with chef Jamie Oliver on BBC1 on Friday 29 September.
But it wasn’t necessarily untrue in a generalised sort of way … and he might have done us all a favour by opening up an important debate.


Why women should not dress like sex industry workers

October 9, 2006 10:30 AM

WRITTEN into the DNA of every man and woman is a profound restlessness.
This is not necessarily a bad thing.
At best, this restlessness feeds the questing human spirit, which in turn nourishes the creative impulses that have produced such great art and science down through the centuries.
Sometimes I wonder if our entire global civilisation isn’t built upon restlessness.

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Steve Regan’s Last Resort in the October 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.

September 2006 is the previous archive.November 2006 is the next archive.

Many more can be found on the home page or by looking through the archives.