The Locker Room

Just seen an advert for Police Academy UK. Looks like it'll be worth a watch, some police officers from forces around the world train, work and patrol on UK streets. Starts soon....

The fiance and I were out today just generally milling about and just out of nowhere she turned and said to me, "You do realised you're dressed like a copper?" Me being confused as hell just looked at her and and without needing to say explain she just answered it by saying, "You are wearing black leather boots, khaki coloured cargo trousers, a white t-shirt and a black jacket. You just look like an off duty copper." Ok I was wearing the above and the black jacket was of a similar design to the North Face Apex jacket just a different brand, but to me I was just dressed for comfort. As daft of a question as it sounds, who else dresses like this and are also either a spec…

Political history may be in the making today if UKIP win the bye-election in Clacton. I do hope they do, even if it only gives Cameron and his oik a kick up the eighties so to speak. I have a feeling in my bones that we are not going to see an out and out party winner at a general election for quite a long while now, so perhaps people ought to prepare themselves for coalitions for a while.

Fifty-one years ago tomorrow, 22 Nov 1963, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. It is one of those "I remember where I was" incidents (I was delivering evening newspapers in Manchester). I got home to find my step-mother and sisters in tears - after all, he as a young successful Irish-American politician - the darling of many of the Irish community around he world. Of course, with the passage of time, we now know he wasn't a saint rather he was an adulterer, drug-abuser, egotist; the product of a totally dysfunctional family. But then we didn't know that - all we knew was that he was a war hero (a PT boat captain in The Pacific)and the bright new future of the world prepared t…