Mark Dicker

Well done Lewis

We’ve done it again. As a nation we have an annoying habit of building up our sporting talent, beyond their capabillities some times, and then knocking them for six when they don’t match our expectations.

Take Lewis Hamilton as an example. Instead of concentrating on the fact that he’s become the No. 2 F1 driver in the world (a position David Coultard and Jenson Button would both love to achieve) and the fact that he’s done it in his first year as a F1 driver, we’ve adopted our usual stance of ripping him to shreds because he missed out by 1 point.

When will we realise that this approach just deters people from trying to achieve anything. The sooner we start to appreciate what UK talent can achieve the sooner they will strive to achieve more.

So well done Lewis. I’ll say it even if no-one else will.

Are you smarter than a ten year old?

I watched this show for the first time on Sunday and it proved both interesting and alarming. It was interesting to see what actually passed as prime time enterntainment these days. But alarmingly it highlighted what seemed to be flaws in the national curriculum.

Whilst the kids were able to recount nursery rhymes with laser like precision (something i’ve often needed in meetings) and they could deduce that Milan is further north than Marseille (handy for long distance lorry drivers) they couldn’t spell simple words like thistle. Thats what alarmed me most.

If these kids were the best of the best then it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the nations children. I really hope i’m wrong on this otherwise in ten years were in deep effluent.