Category: A Day in the Life of a ‘Steel City’ Man…

  • A Glittering career on YOU TUBE ??…or even HOLLYWOOD …???

    A Glittering career on YOU TUBE ??…or even HOLLYWOOD …???

    Is this the start of a ‘Glittering’ You Tube career, or even a call to Hollywood …??? (not !! )

  • A Re-Blog of a Re-Blog….

    ***Whilst browsing previously blogged articles in the Archives today (Friday 17th Feb 2017), I came across this article from August 2015, and I can still feel the passion and anger I felt whilst writing it…the feelings have not subsided one iota and neither has the problem described, namely ‘Affordable Housing’, been addressed either…Platitudes and Lies…

  • Letter of complaint to IPSO about the Sun and Mail disrespecting Britain’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday

    Originally posted on Pride's Purge: Independent Press Standards Organisation Gate House 1 Farringdon Street London EC4M 7LG I am writing to complain about misleading and inaccurate material published by the Sun and the Daily Mail – as well as the disrespectful and dishonest behaviour of a press photographer. On this year’s Remembrance Sunday, the 13th…

  • Brief Reflections about Standing Rock – Wednesday, November 23, 2016

    This is getting out of hand … the government and the corporations need to take note of their racist policies in search of ‘profit at all costs’ … it’s inhuman. And to think the Americans had countless thousands killed at the hands of the Nazs and here they are doing the same thing to the…

  • How a US PR company conned UK voters into voting for Brexit

    Originally posted on Pride's Purge: Sorry Brexiters – but you’ve been conned. By an American. And he’s not even hiding the fact. PR executive Gerry Gunster has been boasting about how his firm was behind the successful Brexit campaign – and how he used sales techniques instead of facts to trick British voters into voting…

  • Good news on the VLOG front…

    Forget about the Presidential election, forget about how the Rotherham Titans RUFC lost again last Saturday … There is GOOD NEWS happening right now !!! The VLOG on You tube, steelcityman … has finally moved off 2 subscribers  (who were family) and now stands at 9, yes NINE subscribers and the views have  sped past the 500 mark (539…

  • Open Letter to White People at Standing Rock

    Open Letter to White People at Standing Rock

    Read this, please, with an open heart. If you start feeling defensive, take a moment to reflect on why that is before returning to reading. I couldn’t NOT reblog this post, written by Miriam Schacht (RoteZora) re: the suggestion that white activists have been taking over from the indigenous people at the STANDING ROCK protest.…

  • Bell ringers’ injuries

    Originally posted on Notes from the U.K.: In last week’s post, I mentioned that York Minster had fired its volunteer bell ringers. It was a small part of the post, but the comments it provoked have been fascinating. So first—because, admit it, you don’t actually read every golden word I publish, although I can’t think what…

  • A Request for Action to Support Standing Rock Water Protectors

    This situation is getting quite serious and I urge all who read this to contact the President of the USA and show support for the Indigenous people and the Standing Rock call for action. It reminds me VERY MUCH of the news reels I saw in the sixties when the American government treat the black…

  • ‘GUNFIRE’ …at Balaklava.

    OCTOBER 25th … BALAKLAVA DAY. (a link to the ‘GUNFIRE’ Vlog) Amongst the cavalry regiments of the British Army…Hussars, Lancers, Dragoons, Light and Heavy, there is a proud tradition of celebrating /remembering the famous ‘CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE’ ..As immortalised by Alfred Lord Tennyson in his epic poem. MY first experience of ‘GUNFIRE’, a la ‘Balaklava Day, was on…