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    Charlie King
    • Jan 14
    • 2 min

    1984 Book vs Real life

    Just going to go through as much as I remember about 1984 to compare it with claims people make all the time now that everything is Orwel...

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    Satire Scribes
    • Sep 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Ex-students trying to relive glory days with night out grateful for excuse of 10pm curfew

    Ex-university students have expressed their gratitude towards the government for giving them an excuse to end their nights out early as t...

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    Charlie King
    • Feb 13, 2020
    • 4 min

    Why society never seems to be at the right level of 'offended'

    I’ve never been a people person and even before the days of the World Wide Web and social media, you knew there were a lot of stupid and/...

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    Charlie King
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola 'lack depth' in criticism of Marvel movies

    Martin Scorsese recently said that Marvel films were not cinema and lacked depth, comparing them to a theme park attraction while Francis...

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    Charlie King
    • Sep 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    Chelsea Women vs Tottenham Women: Further proof of the growth of Women's football

    Yesterday I took in some football at Stamford Bridge as the Chelsea Women hosted Tottenham Hotspur Women in the Women’s Super League open...

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    Charlie King
    • Jul 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Pokémon Phenomenon

    I recently watched the original series of Pokémon on Netflix, as many episodes of the first series that Netflix had anyway. I thought whe...

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    Charlie King
    • Jul 5, 2019
    • 6 min

    Lampard's arrival fixes fan apathy but there are more problems for him to fix at Chelsea.

    Frank Lampard’s appointment as Chelsea manager is a cause for excitement for Chelsea fans. Besides Mourinho (in his second stint), there ...

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    Charlie King
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    The rise of Women's Football

    From over a decade ago, the only mention of women’s football I would hear would be the FA Cup final, played somewhere like Nottingham For...

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    Charlie King
    • May 16, 2019
    • 6 min

    DLC, Micro-transactions and Loot Boxes: Video Gaming’s Unholy Triforce

    There are three (mostly unwelcome) additions to video games that have come about as a result of consoles becoming online. Being online me...

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    Charlie King
    • Mar 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    Football fan culture: a socially acceptable form of abuse.

    Football fans are a hot topic at the moment after this weekend’s incidents. The altercation between Chris Smalling and a fan would have b...

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    Charlie King
    • Feb 11, 2019
    • 6 min

    How important is storytelling in video games?

    There are three main types of video games. One that is designed to tell a great story, one that is designed to have great gameplay and on...

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    Charlie King
    • Jan 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Chelsea quickly learning possession isn't nine tenths of the law in football.

    It used to seem as if possession meant everything in football at one point. If your team lost or even if you lost on FIFA or Football Man...

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    Charlie King
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 5 min

    ‘Sunderland ‘til I die’: the best and worst of football culture revealed.

    Sunderland ‘Til I Die is a behind-the scenes documentary series following the trials and tribulations of Sunderland AFC during the 2017/1...

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    Charlie King
    • Jan 7, 2016
    • 6 min

    A rant on Americans who oppose gun control.

    Usually, my blog posts would have some kind of structure and my title would be very concise and may involve some kind of word play. Howev...

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