Our world has too much prejudice and too much hatred and I would add to that arrogance and the "I'm always right and everyone else is always wrong."
I'll give you a local example of prejudiced hate and yes it does revolve around football.
Football fans will know that yesterday Norwich played local rivals Ipswich for the first time in a number of years due to Ipswich's lengthy sojourn in a lower league.
But now the two teams are back in the same division. On Friday evening our local BBC news had a feature on Ipswich Town who are doing rather better than Norwich this season.
The cameras visited a local school where all the pupils were wearing blue (Ipswich Town's colour). They interviewed a kid who looked to be seven or eight.
"I hate Norwich," he declared.
Now where does this come from? This boy has almost certainly never been to Norwich, and probably knows nothing about our city. His comments were borne out of blind prejudice because his friends hold the same view and he's probably been told by his parents that he hates Norwich
Personally I have absolutely nothing against Ipswich Town Football Club and am glad that they are second in the league because they play good attacking football which Norwich certainly don't.
At times I pretend I hate Ipswich just to go with the flow, but I don't. I have to say that the town of Ipswich is not a particularly nice place but that view is based on several visits there and not from prejudice. Most people visiting Norwich and Ipswich would say that the former is a much nicer place although even in my home city there is a nasty undercurrent that makes it feel unpleasant after dark.
So for those not into football the match ended in a 2-2'draw which was probably more satisfactory to Norwich than to Ipswich.
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Is there a more odious and self righteous man than Piers Morgan?
"I did not tap anyones phone," the former newspaper editor cried. "I am wrongly accused."
For those living overseas who may not be familiar with what's been going on. The Mirror Group of newspapers have been accused of hacking the phones of celebrities to listen into conversations and then writing stories around what they have heard. Of course this is illegal.
The Mirror Group of newspapers has held its hands up and apologised, thus admitting that phone hacking and dirty tricks certainly did take place. The court judgement also confirms that phone hacking did take place.
The leading figure in complaining about the Media in this situation is none other than Prince Harry or "Spare" as he refers to himself in his recently published book.
Piers Morgan has denied telling anyone to hack a phone. But why would we believe a man who was sacked from his job allegedly for supporting phone hacking.
In a statement, he says it's inexplicable that claims made about him weren't challenged in court by lawyers representing the paper's publisher
Earlier, a High Court ruled that Prince Harry was the victim of phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) - and awarded him £140,600 in damages
Justice Fancourt said the prince's personal phone was targeted between 2003 and 2009
Harry, via his lawyer, called the ruling "a great day for truth as well as accountability"
But Morgan questioned the royal's intentions, saying he wouldn't know the truth if it "slapped him around his California tanned face"
The Mirror Group issued an apology after the ruling, saying the group "apologises unreservedly" for where "historical wrongdoing took place"
In other words they admitted breaking the rules.
Maybe when it comes to Piers Morgan I might be filled with a touch of prejudice and hatred.
I note that Morgan studied journalism at Harlow College. I hope that's the only thing I have in common with him.
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On Friday night in an attempt to calm down following the exciting news of our new granddaughter, I decided to solve some puzzles to keep the old grey matter ticking over.
My friend Mel Perkins has for the past 13 years put together a fiendish conundrum at Christmas. There's always a theme to the cryptic clues. This year it was cats and dogs both real and fictitious.
I will be including the conundrum in the next edition of Hethersett Herald for anyone wanting some light relief over Christmas.
So far I've managed to solve most of the clues, but as usual are stuck on four or five. Even waking up at 3 am yesterday morning didn't help. Look out for the conundrum in Hethersett Herald. I will publish the link once it's online on Christmas Eve.
Then I turned my attention to the fiendish GCHQ Christmas puzzles. There's eight of them this year and they are aimed at school children aged between 11 and 18. I'm going to try them out on grandson Elliot who is 11 and see if he can do better than me. The questions are a mix of logic, code breaking and maths and on Friday night in two hours of studying them I managed to do one. Understanding the questions is tough enough, working out that answers is even tougher.
Yesterday I completed a further two but it isn't easy going.