News, views, opinions...rants!

When I started this blog I tried hard to avoid blogging about news of current events. The problem is that limiting the blog to personal experiences does just that…limits it. Especially when my personal experiences tend to consist of sleep, having a scratch, work and Nintendo. News blogging can be a thin end of the wedge though. You start off with a blog about a news item because it touches on something near to your heart, like booze or donkey sanctuaries and before you know it you are venturing opinions about the news. Never mind that the BBC has people who actually go and find things out and have a background in the issues and have worked hard at developing a way to present them clearly, surely some blogger knows better. This is why you end up posting something like 'why it's right that people who hunt should be fed to wolves' and ranting so hard that when you finish typing the post you're bleeding from the ears.

Worse still, you might attract a comment from other people who agree with you.

Then, weeks later, when you come off your medication, you realise that you've posted a load of uninformed tosh.

Having considered that, I think it's time to post about current events. Just for a while. I can handle it. I'll be restrained. Ish.