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May 2008 Archives

Good instincts ... for terrible times

May 16, 2008 10:19 AM

SO, we must all fasten our seat belts because we are in for a rough ride, money-wise.
That was the blunt message delivered earlier this week by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England.
He warned of a further squeeze on household finances, with food prices and energy bills going up again and property prices falling, maybe very steeply.
We could be heading for a recession, he said, and added that “the nice decade” was behind us. Eh?!
Mervyn's surely right about the bad stuff coming our way, but I can't agree with his assessment that the past ten years have been at all “nice”...

To love a place is to accept its shortcomings

May 13, 2008 3:54 PM

IF YOU love a place or thing (your country, a city, a town, or even a football club) you need to need to see its faults as well as its virtues.
I think most people understand the sense of such an approach ... if they think about it at all.
There is little merit in being blindly, stupidly, enthusiastic about something if, by doing so, you blot out or even deny negative aspects of its existence.
That does no-one any favours...

Calm down, pubbers! / My 'Thoughts' on radio

May 10, 2008 11:26 PM

SO it’s coming up for 11pm on a Saturday night as I start to write this posting.
I know, I really shouldn’t be at home on my computer just now… like some sad web 'ead.
I should be out largin’ it in the bars of New Brighton ... or Liverpool.
Except I’m not the type of bloke to be found largin’ it in trendoid wine bars or even “dahn the pub”.
And especially not at the weekends when all the amateur drinkers are out…
(Read on for important information coming up near the end of this posting.)

Between the purity of the angels and the savagery of beasts … is politics

May 4, 2008 11:19 PM

WELL, I did my democratic duty. I went along and voted in the local government elections last Thursday.
Most people, of course, didn’t bother, which is a shame … and quite dangerous, given how adrift and disconnected English society is right now.
Politics might not be fun, it might not be very attractive (it has been dubbed "showbiz for ugly people" after all), but it is dead important. Why?

This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Steve Regan’s Last Resort in the May 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.

April 2008 is the previous archive.

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