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As the Olympics approaches, I must confess that I am rather looking forward to it.
Oh not to the games, but rather anticipating almost everyone I know departing this beautiful Shire of York and giving me some peace. With 11 million...

I read a fascinating article recently about the concept of a "work martyr"; someone who is eager to gain recognition for their work by working long hours, refusing to take breaks and just generally running themselves into the ground in order to sacrifice themselves at the altar of career.

It...

Ronald De Sousa claims that in order to be amused by something we have to endorse the attitudes of it. This means that the reason that we see divided opinion over whether something is funny or not is because people naturally support different attitudes. Someone who has a low tolerance...

Our country is in a state of chaos.

We see violence and disruption in the news every day but it's very rare that the majority of the country is sat, united, watching the news that is going on on their very doorsteps. When you see people rioting and looting shops...

"Why are we shoulding all over ourselves?" ~ Carrie Sex & The City

In and amongst all of the ridiculous, farfetched, consumerist fantasy of Sex & The City, a show which I cannot help but love, despite my acceptance that it is quite often as insulting and degrading to women...

I, Lianne Marie Binks, being a resident of the West Riding of Yorkshire declare: That Yorkshire is three Ridings and the City of York, with these Boundaries of 1134 years standing; That the address of all places in these Ridings is Yorkshire; That all persons born therein or resident therein...

It's an unusual experience to read a book written by someone that one actually knows - there is an undercurrent of determination to enjoy it in appreciation of their hard work. Luckily I am unable to be anything but honest (often brutally so) so this review is entirely unbiased!

Before...

"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me." ~ Elizabeth Bennett

I often think to myself that it would have been so much simpler to have lived...