Freelancing is something that I’m looking into doing, actually, on top of a day job or something. As I said, it all depends on whether it goes up to 15 or not.

I’m sorry. Let me just… Twelve grand?

Christ, you might as well be a freelancer for that much. Certainly one might argue it’s harder work (having to source jobs, pitch articles and the like), but at least you’re not then tied to Bournemouth.

I believe the real problem with relationships is this odd mindset that arguments and unhappiness are acceptable, and that being friends with your partner is weird and wrong.

People who bitch at me about their other halves are calmly told they clearly aren’t in love. That either makes them shout at me, or storm off in a huff. Either way, I’m right

The reason? There was cash in his bike’s saddlebags and he had no ID on him. Yes. Clearly a drug dealer. In fact he’d been at work at the music shop he owned and ran, and had taken the cash to go pay for brand new security shutters that had been installed. Thus all ID was back at the shop, and he didn’t take it with him because he was only popping out for five minutes.

The police over there do like to open their traps and let out a stream of garbage rather than stop and think before speaking. One would’ve thought in a job like theirs discretion would be the best option.

The problem with this economic disaster that’s literally waiting to go off, in my view, lies with more fundamental issues with state capitalism and free markets, but that’s a different article altogether.

It’s a great shame. For years (particularly since 9/11) Americans have had the blinkers on with regards to the severe problems within their own society, and the Bush administration has attempted to keep it that way by starting wars all over the place and pointing overseas. Anyone who dared to say “Um, wouldn’t it be good if we could look at our own problems and, maybe, think of a way of fixing them?” was accused of being un-Patriotic and shouted down.

There are no problems here. Anyone who says they are hates America.

With that kind of internal stonewalling it’s no surprise that the USA’s been sliding into recession for five years. They just refuse to admit it, so they can’t halt the slide because nobody’s allowed to analyse it and fix it before it goes too far.

Alas the real problem is that the UK’s government remained blinkered, too, so we’re sailing around the US’s sinkhole, waiting to get sucked in.