Steve Lowes Blog
Why the message from our leaders isn't getting across
You know a Government is in trouble when you hear that the problem is they are just not getting their message across. Or that these are difficult times especially after inheriting the mess the last
Imagination is now needed to revamp school PE lessons
Schoolgirls don't like PE shock. This is the latest piece of ground breaking university research, which follows on from poor people have a worse diet than those better off and voters are fed up with politicians.
Please don't let our water be rationed by price in the future
Excuse me for returning to a subject on which I have already waxed lyrical. It is this damn drought, or phoney drought to be more exact. I cannot believe that there can be another country in the world
Holiday shows Olympic-time air travel is not a flight I'd fancy
It's good to go travelling but it's so much nicer to come home. Not sure about that and it is far harder to actually get home these days, although getting there can have its own problems. We have just
Now we'll all be paying the price with Big Brother watching us...
There is a rumour in the newspaper world that if you send an email containing aggressive viewpoints about the USA, or derogatory comments about its President, the email will take longer than usual to
'Nepotism seems to be alive and well in this Government'
Poor old 'Call me Dave'. He can't even invite a friend round to dinner without finding himself accused of doing it just to help the Tory coffers.
Take from OAPs, give to the rich...not Robin Hood but robbin' b*******s
It's the same the whole world over, it's the poor what gets the blame, it's the rich that gets the pleasure, ain't it all a blooming shame. This could have been sung as George Osborne entered the
I may not know much about art - but I like an idea I've had
There is despair in some artistic quarters over a Picasso painting. His 'Child with a dove' is to be sold by the aristocratic Aberconway family from Wales and is said to be worth £50million.
Water, water everywhere...but still a drought looms large
I sat reading all about the drought last Sunday as hours of rain began to flood our garden. No doubt it was the wrong sort of rain, falling at the wrong time of year, to do any good. The threat of
To be sure, you need to ensure you now insure your insurance
Recently the banks hit another metaphorical pothole when it was revealed that they were having to compensate customers for having mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). PPI is an insurance
Remember how we were saved in War of the Worlds
Polio is on the way out. At least that is what doctors and scientists are saying. Everyone my age will have known people with polio, a highly infectious viral disease which affects the central nervous
Spitting in street creates an uncool, chavvy image
Do you spit in public? It appears to be a growing problem, as more and more people, usually young men, spit on the pavement as they walk along.
Kids today judge books on how interesting they are
This week we have celebrated the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens.
Let people study without taking on the extra debt
As expected the number of people applying to go to university in England has fallen.
Let people study without having to take on extra debt
As expected the number of people applying to go to university in England has fallen.
Punishing the poor exposes the Tories' blinkered thinking
The way to make the rich work harder is to pay them more, the way to make the poor work harder is to pay them less.
