It was only a matter of time that I would get myself a gun and walk out into my front garden firing it with ricocheting self made sound effects “Peeow peeow!!”. Lancashire was my grand canyon, Chief our golden Labrador my long suffering steed. I had the gun, with caps, the white vinyl holster with silver press studs and I was the fastest draw in west ashton in Makerfield.! A gun toting rootin tooting two foot tall John Wayne   more »

he most intense time was midnight outside the iconic Bush House having done the interview for The World Today with the films director Mohammed Al-Daradji, we discussed Iraq, he spoke passionately “To many it is just statistics “oh a man killed here, a suicide bomb there” I have lost five members of my close family”. Mohammed then listed each member of his family: when and how each member was murdered by suicide bombers or American bombs.   more »