Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: October 27, 2009
In response to your article “Police want pubs to close earlier to combat violence” (Courier Mail, October 27)
First and foremost: many people who frequent the venues you are proposing to close at 2am are there to socialise. Alcohol is a lubricant to this social interaction, and applying ludicrous limits to its consumption will cause patrons [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: October 15, 2009
With sharp rises in knife crime and other gang related violence – both within alleged gangs and towards the general civilian population – recently, youth crime has been a poignant issue for many in London and the UK as a whole. While all youth crime statistics have seen a rise (there was controversy earlier this [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: October 12, 2009
The following was written in response to an article published in the Evening Standard newspaper. Newstand advertisements called it a “£2,000 pound per year electricity bill warning” rather than seeing it for the warning that it actually should have been…
By creating an impression of simply being a “warning” against what could be a 60 percent [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: September 8, 2009
The compassionate release of terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, and weak political parties in the UK vying for support in a climate of ill-confidence in our MP’s, has combined to cause controversy over a decision that otherwise, should only have raised controversy of a marginal and brief kind.
There are obvious and various reasons [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: September 3, 2009
In Anthony Burgess’s classic novel, one of the main characters and our narrator is reduced to A clockwork Orange – a man unable to exercise his own free will – through the use of a closely monitored but controversial technique, touted as the solution to juvenile delinquency and in the case of the story, as [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: August 6, 2009
Installing devices on buses to monitor the erratic or dangerous or unsafe actions of its drivers is all well and good. Who says they will improve the passenger experience? Fair enough, we’ve all had encounters with less than skillful driving – probably more than once – but who can be blamed for what may end [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: August 3, 2009
I, like many other Londoners have often enjoyed the vibrant, energetic festivities that are the Notting Hill carnival. In recent years however (and as the media is increasingly laying its focus on) this time of year in west London has become more and more troublesome.
I recall one particular year when I was in attendance with [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: July 24, 2009
In response to my article on Binge drinking in the Uk (London Paper July 22 -& seen here below) the outraged Tim Fish, 2 days later, wrote in with the following
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/talk/columnists/?column=the-columnist&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&userId=41887ed2-0be7-4c69-9a59-1e70099c6e5b&plckPostId=Blog%3a41887ed2-0be7-4c69-9a59-1e70099c6e5bPost%3a83527526-2345-4f57-aad3-ed283711e59b&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
Here is my reponse:
I am always hesitant to needlessly list statistics, but after Tim Fish (Raise your glass to happy hour July 24th) implied I [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: July 21, 2009
Gary Reinbach, a 22 year old in the Uk, died earlier this week after being refused a liver transplant because he wouldnt have been able to fulfill the requirements of a “drying out” period in order to undergo the procedure. Reports say that despite his age, it was the worst cirrhosis of the liver they’d [...]
