The royal wedding

Hello

Okay, so I can see that with my promise of daily posts for a while, I'm going to end up doing them very late at night. I'm not always this disorganised, honestly.

Today, a month later, I'm going to talk about the royal wedding. Yesterday I told you that my views on this would be very negative. In fact, you will have noticed that they are so negative, I purposely don't capitalise the R and the W when writing the words 'royal' and 'wedding'.

The reason it pisses me off so much is because our useless Government goes on and on and on and on and on about how we have so little money and how we have to cut all the important things, like EMA and the National Health Service and youth groups etc... and then they can spend such a huge amount of taxpayer's money on this stupid wedding which is going to benefit absolutely no one! And I totally despise Will and Kate for going along with it. Someone said to me once that it's not really the couple's fault, it's just the system. I responded that they have a choice about whether to go along with the system, so it is their fault really. If they had any decency, they would have got married in Chelsea Registry Office, with Kate wearing jeans and a T-shirt. If they wanted a bit of glamour, they could have had the Queen along as a witness - and that's it.

In fact, the whole 'Royal' family really annoy me. For three reasons:

1) They cost the country a hell of a lot of money.
2) They are the ultimate example of posh and upper-class people being better than everyone else.
3) They are very insincere, and smile and wave at complete strangers all day.

I always say that if I was Royal, I'd be very unfriendly to everyone. People would stop me in the street, and I'd be like: 'Leave me alone! I'm in a mood, I feel a bit sick and I don't want to talk to you.' At least that way I would be honest with people, and not just let them lick my shoes for the sake of it. Honesty is the best policy, and I'm a firm believer in what you see is what you get.

I am proud to say I did not watch the wedding. I was at the theatre, enjoying a very gruelling rehearsal for our performance the next day. The majority of our group were good enough to sacrifice their precious wedding to turn up on the day, which I am immensely grateful for.

I think that's about all for today. I am aware that this is more of a rant than a post, but there we are. Tomorrow I'll either talk about the death of Osama or the Bristol Tesco riots, whichever takes my fancy.

Ciao!

Bassett

This one is just a quick one to do with my acting work. I'm sorry if you feel a bit cheated because of the hurry, I'm just not in the mood to write anything particularly insightful right now.

Basically, last week I auditioned for something called Bassett at a popular theatre in Bristol. We read through the script (which was amazing, by the way) and basically they assessed how well we performed each character. Anyway, I hadn't thought I had got in, because there were some great people there and I hadn't heard from them at all. But anyway... turns out no one has heard yet, so seems like they're taking longer to decide than I thought. So I still have a chance! So wish me luck!

Tomorrow I will talk about my rather negative opinion of the royal wedding (deliberately spelt without capital letters.)

Andrew Lansley's 'listening exercise'

Hello

Now, I said I'd update this blog every day for the next few days or so to make up for the long gap, and that's what I'm doing. I've chosen today's topic because it's really quite urgent and that is: Andrew Lansley's 'listening exercise' concerning the NHS.

Andrew Lansley is doing this 'listening exercise' so that when he announces plans to privatise the NHS, he can claim he's talked to the public and listen to what they have to say. It actually doesn't mean anything at all like that, because all the meetings have been kept very secret and hushed up, so not many people actually get a chance to make their voices heard.

However, 38 Degrees (I can't remember if I've mentioned them before? Anyway, they're an NGO that tackles this kind of nonsense) have made a petition to sign, and a feature where people can write to the Government to make it very clear that our National Health Service is not being privatised. Here is the link to the petition:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/Protect_our_NHS_Petition#petition/

And here is the feature where you can send your comments:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/nhs-listening-response?js=false/

Please respond to both of these at once. The exercise ends on Tuesday, so it is important to get as many names as possible. On the last day, 38 Degrees with deliver Andrew the petition - in full view of the media! So come on guys! Be part of it! Take a few moments to sign your name.

I don't have anyone to love and admire today. Okay, that sounds very harsh, and it didn't sound like that in my head. I'm just not going to mention someone in every single post. Suffice it to say I will love and admire you if you sign the petition!

See you guys!

I'm going out in the world to save our planet, and I ain't coming back until she's saved!

Hello my lovely readers

I am so, so sorry for the gap. As you probably know, I'm in my first year of A-levels, and I've been really busy with exams recently, so I haven't had time to update this blog much in the last month or so. It's been heartbreaking, because there are so many things I wanted to talk about, but there you are.

Anyway, to make up for this, over the next couple of days I aim to put lots more content on this blog, with talks about the royal wedding, the death of Osama, the AV referendum, Andrew Lansley's 'listening exercise' and anything else that comes to mind. I really want to start updating this blog more regularly, I hate it when I fall behind.

Anyway, for the first time with this post, the 'people I love and admire' section is going to be the main bit, because I have quite a lot to say this time. My person to love and admire this time is someone called Axel Ehnström, better known by his professional name, Paradise Oskar. He is a Finnish singer, and I first came across him nearly two weeks ago when he represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Da Da Dum'.

Now, if you watched it, you will know that the title of this post is a lyric from the song, which he wrote himself and sang solo with a guitar. The song was about a nine-year-old called Peter, who is told that the planet is dying and someone needs to save it. He naively tries to tell everyone to stop what they're doing and to save the planet with him, but no one listens to him because he is just a child. Peter decides to continue to persevere, no matter what anyone says.

I think the message in the song is that anyone can be Peter. We have all become so cynical, and whenever it seems like we could help, we think, 'Oh it's more complicated than that.' I feel that I am Peter in a way, because I am persistent and I never will give up on what I believe in. Maybe it's just because I'm a young idealist, but I actually do want to save the world. And I want everyone to know about it.

So come on, people! Join me! Make a difference! Do something decent with your life! I'm doing it by being a political activist and writing this blog! Come on, don't let the world down!

And of course... here is the song!