Alan Coleman
This is my personal website and blog. A space where I bang on about ideas and experiences.
Try as I might, I rarely succeed in sitting sit on the fence. But who cares? The middle ground is boring, it's smug and doesn't read very well.
Category Archives: Great Britain
The ghost of Christmas past.
I love Christmas, always have done. I can remember vividly getting worked up into a frenzy as Christmas came closer, school finished and family started to congregate in houses far too small for the purpose. Looking back, it was all … Continue reading
The News of the World is dead, Who cares?
It’s only been a few days since the it was announced that NOW was finishing with its last edition today, it all coming amid the phone hacking scandal that is currently gripping the nation. My Tweet Deck has been working … Continue reading
Tea. The Great British Myth
Tea. Nobody in this country can make a decent cup of tea, the only people that can come close are myself and my mother, and even she doesn’t bother to make a proper cup any more. The worst place to … Continue reading
War, there’s something for everyone
A few years ago I wrote about The sanitisation of war, how our media have come to depict warfare in general as not only just, but as a simple story of good against evil in the manner of a Commando … Continue reading
Why have we stopped talking properly?
It’s happened very quickly, in the last couple of years it seems that the way that we speak has changed more than in the last four or five decades. It’s like an epidemic has taken hold affecting everyone between the … Continue reading
