Two incidents in the last few days serve to illustrate that much of our infrastructure is well past its use by date, offering a worrying view of what needs to be done to keep the country moving in the future.
The issue of travellers has been in the news recently. Many are simply people who have chosen a different way of life and prefer the open road to the cul-de-sac or close.
Some people love autumn; when the leaves gloriously fade through their repertoire of golds and browns and reds. That is certainly a compensation, briefly, when we realise that whatever passed for summer this year is shuffling off to Buffalo and our world is about to get damp, messy and dark again.
Commitment to a political party in the UK is not always simple because our system can lead to strategic rather than commitment voting. If you live in a safe constituency for a party you don’t care for, then it is tempting to vote for whichever alternative might unseat them.
There are many lessons to be learned from the decades of deceit and denial that followed the tragedy of the deaths at Hillsborough in 1989, but the biggest may be that corruption is potentially endemic in every power structure from Nairobi to Colombia via Sheffield and FIFA – check your history books and prove me wrong if you can.
As a self-confessed technophile, my default position is to embrace the new.
