The Pickled BlogThe Diagnosis May 4th 2022. At about 1am, while I was staying at my Parent’s house, a familiar pain had begun in the lower right side of my abdomen. This time however I could already tell this wasn’t like anytime before. Not wanting to get driven to hospital at this hour and knowing I didn’t […]
The recent protest this week at the Snooker World Championships offers yet another example of how protest by some has become dangerous to our society and exhibit all the hallmarks of psychopathy as opposed to public conscience. I was brought up to be respectful and tolerant of others. To value a liberal democracy where the […]
Any donatioms welcome as always. Absolutely useless. Selfish. Greedy. Corrupt. Spineless. Stupid. Lying scum. These aren’t just the words we reserve for journalists after Covid. They are also the words we use to describe, on the whole, those who represent us in Parliament. I’m not here to argue the case for the current house. I’m […]
Almost two years to the day I published Part 4 of what I called ‘The Age of Entitlement’. A series of detailed pieces that outlined and predicted the pain we are now seeing writ large. I lamented how people across the developed world had succumbed to selfishness and shirked their responsibility to future generations when […]
Be honest, that statement is true. Since elected there have been more than a few moments where he’s forgotten where he is, said something you can’t understand and even fallen over more than once. That it wouldn’t surprise you exposes a very real problem in the functioning of society and western democracy. We’ve heard and […]
Part 4 – Funny Money And A Perilous Path With vaccinations underway it may appear that we are now at the ‘beginning of the end’. In a matter of months providing the vaccine protects against infection in the high risk groups we should be able to unlock and return to normal. Or so the plan […]
Part 3 – Beware Bad Actors In parts 1 & 2 I’ve shown two things. Firstly, an alarming majority of people hold the view that a perfect solution exists to Covid. Secondly, that this mass delusion has distorted and dictated our response to Covid resulting in an outcome that is a catastrophe by any objective […]
I wrote this at the start of April. On the whole it has aged well. I wouldn’t change the overall approach – the need to hedge a no vaccine scenario by managing transmission, as well as recognising that for the youngest the virus represented a risk lockdown was unwarranted for. But I would change one […]
A Failure In Outcome Why effective goals matter To succeed at anything you need a target. A goal. An objective. A direction of travel. Goals are incredibly important. They provide the logical framework from which everything else flows. Goals are not in themselves a guarantee of success. For example, just because you have decided to […]
What Covid, I think, has revealed is that we now live in a dangerous age. The Age of Entitlement. An age where, consciously or otherwise, the majority of people in the developed world have adopted a state of total denial. Detached from reality. No longer do many accept or understand our quality of life – […]