Thinking out loud

Avenue Q: The Review.

On Thursday evening, I went to see Avenue Q at Her Majesty’s Theatre. I enjoyed this experience immensely. Having heard all the music before (courtesy of it being my brother’s WoW soundtrack for a while) I already knew it was amusing, witty, and catchy. What I wasn’t counting on was it being side-splittingly funny and [...]

A lower standard of behaviour

Following on from my post “Interesting to the Public”, I’m writing today about another topic that has arisen from Rann-gate.
My question is this: Should we hold our leaders to a higher standard of behaviour than that of the general public?
It used to be that what was OK for Uncle Jimmy (shaving a bit off taxes [...]

Actual Results May Vary

My name is Emma. I have a first class honours degree in Philosophy (although you wouldn’t think it, given my usual standard of argument). I have a second major in English and scream at misplaced apostrophes (but I love lolcats). I have classical voice lessons (but listen to The Who, Deep Purple, and Doris Day). [...]