I've been very quiet on the blogging front in recent weeks but now I'm back.
My journalism studying has taken priority as I prepared to sit my NCTJ journalism news writing exam.
Rather than commenting on the big news stories, my evenings have been spent writing endless practice news reports in preparation for my exam which I had today. Thankfully it's over, and I can return to my blogging.
Well, there's been so much to talk about. Look at what's going on in Europe, we're in an economic meltdown.
The problems with Greece have been well documented for months - but things are getting serious now, with the crisis in Italy.
We're living through a really significant period in European history, but I'm not sure whether people realise this. The entire movement towards greater political and economic integration between European countries is under serious threat.
What's really interested me is we've had changes in government in both Greece and Italy, but there's been no elections, and the people have had no say on the matter. It's the financial markets who've brought about this change.
They've had so little faith in those countries abilities to implement economic reform, that they've forced out the leaders of those countries. My question is: What ever happened to democracy?
What else has been catching my attention - The return of racism in football.
It's like we're back in 70s and 80s. We had the incident between Liverpool's Luiz Saurez allegedly racially abusing Man Utd's Patrice Evra. Then a few weeks later there was the incident in the QPR/Chelsea game in which and I again use the word 'allegedly' John Terry, England Captain, racially abused Anton Ferdinand.
Anyone under the age of 25 who follows English football has probably never thought about racism and football being linked.
For those of us who grew up in the 80's, racism was still a prominent part of the game but at the same time attitudes were changing.
I don't know what to make of this spate of new allegations.
And finally....A story that I couldn't ignore was that death of former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier.
There was a time in sport where to be heavyweight champion of the world was the pinnacle of sporting achievement. You couldn't be a bigger sporting star. The passing of Joe Frazier, reminds you of how far heavyweight boxing has fallen in terms of prestige and significance to the general public.
When you think of Joe Frazier, you immediately think of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman and an amazing golden age of boxing.
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