Editor's Blog July 10th 2012

Written on 10 July 2012.

Budget Time

It’s the budget, and for one who lives like there is no tomorrow, budgets have been a thing of mystery to me since I cashed my first wage and blew it all on Airfix aeroplanes.

My mother went mental of course, and she has always said I have a hole in my hand when it comes to money. Money, my friends, is a means to an end. I have never given money much thought, I would work and get paid at the end of the month and then I would spend it.

The most money I have juggled with was not my own. It belonged to someone else. I did a reasonably good job managing these finances and in some cases made savings. I suppose that when the money is not yours, you probably would do a better job of staying in the black.

Most of my financial issues today are centred on the cost of living. Basic things like food are getting expensive beyond belief. A trip to Morrisons will send shockwaves down my pocket and into my wallet, and last week I actually burst out laughing in disbelief at the £83 I was charged for a single basket of groceries.

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Editor's Blog July 09th 2012

Written on 09 July 2012.

What is it about the female breast, which makes most men incapable to carry a conversation without their eyes taking a stroll if any flesh is exposed below the neckline?

In evolutionary terms breasts, the female variety are a food delivery system and a highly efficient one at that. All mammals have mammary glands hence the collective genus for all animals that nurse their young with milk.

The World Health Organisation cites breast-feeding as beneficial for infants in the first six months to a year without the addition of baby formula or solids, giving your child the best start in life insofar as antibodies and a food source of great nutritional value.

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Editor's Blog July 06th 2012

Written on 06 July 2012.

Ed is a feminist Today

At what point is it OK to fart in front of a new girlfriend or boy friend? Is it our bad habits or intricacies that doom a relationship from the start? Or are relationships something of the past.

It was every young girls dream to marry a handsome well to do man and be kept in an ivory tower, with all of her and her children’s needs taken care of. This has been the way of the world for eons.

The worm has definitely turned these last forty years and long gone are the days of women picking up men’s discarded underpants with mars bar skid marks with a pair or BBQ tongs.

Today’s women are intelligent, well educated, independent and less accepting of a life of servitude. If you are in your thirties or older, you would have seen your mother fawn and slave over your dad almost all your life, only to see them split up in their twilight years leaving you thinking WTF happened?

Well I can tell you what happened. Your mum got wise, or shall I say wiser. She has carried out her responsibilities with merit. The kids are all grown up, she read 50 shades of Yanito, looked at your dad sitting on the couch with the remnants of the frozen TV dinner stuck to his face whilst hogging the remote and scratching his crotch and she thinks, enough.

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Editor's Blog July 05th 2012

Written on 05 July 2012.

Spanish Hostilities Continue…

During the course of the last couple of months, Gibraltar has seen a whole new level of Spanish hostility against the average person on the street. Forget the outright illegal activities of the Spanish fishermen, who are clearly being ordered by the Partido Popular to operate in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.

No, I can’t forget it. Even as recently as this morning, Guardia Civil and a single Clam Boat have been carrying out their activities, with an impunity reserved only for those with a sense of entitlement.

While the politicians do what they do best, which is pumping their jaws, spewing verbal sewage and little else, the state of affairs remain as they have been. There is however a sinister turn on the dispute.

At YGTV we get daily reports of Gibraltarians being harassed and in some cases assaulted, both in Gibraltar and in Spain. Starting with the case of Mr Felix Alvarez and the indignation he suffered at the hands of the Guardia Civil whilst crossing the border.

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