Tracks of my years

Posted: December 30, 2007 in music

Anyone who knows me knows how important music has been to me since I was knee-high to a record player. From embarrassing Cliff Richard impersonations as a five-year-old (apparently “Summer Holiday” was a family crowd-pleaser) to the eclectic cast of thousands on my iPod, music has been a constant thread throughout my life. So as I approached my 50th birthday last September, I figured why not “do a Nick Hornby” and pick out 50 songs that have meant the most to me over the past half a century. I finally got around to finishing it over Christmas.

Premier Dr. Ewart Brown has handed back responsibility for the Judiciary, Legislature and the Department of Public Prosecution that he alarmingly took from new Attorney General Kim Wilson after the election. According to a Cabinet office statement published in The Royal Gazette, he announced:

“The Attorney General has confirmed that those private matters which might have made the assumption of these ministerial responsibilities unduly burdensome have been resolved and I am happy to return those areas of responsibility to her. I certainly have enough to do.”

So what was all that about? Was this really a genuinely temporary arrangement or did someone tell the Prem that consolidating power this way was a no-no? As shadow AG John Barritt told the Gazette:

“There is no question that what was originally put out there was wrong, not only for appearances but because there should be a separation of the executive and judiciary and prosecution.”

Rangers’ Christmas cracker

Posted: December 29, 2007 in football

Watford 2 QPR 4?! I don’t who is more in shock, high-flying Watford or me and every other Rs fan. Chelsea should be suitably worried for next week’s FA Cup tie, I reckon.