I'm a 38 year old Accountant living in Staffordshire in the UK.

I'm soon to be married, with 4 boys under the age of 12, so our house is always busy. And noisy!

I love sports of all kinds, but I'm much more of an armchair fan these days, which is great given the range of cable channels available!

I'm looking forward to meeting many people here on Helium, and looking forward to writing and rating many articles on a wide range of topics.

My passion is ...

making sure my children grow up safe and healthy.

I know too much about ...

football - to the point of boredom (even to me).

My parents always told me ...

to be kind and respectful, then people will do the same to me.

My childhood ambition ...

to fly in the armed forces. Then I realised that I'm afraid of heights!

My favorite memory ...

Winning all the races in the holiday camp sports day in 1976, resplendent in a 1976 Olympics T-shirt!

Why I write ...

because I enjoy being creative and the sense of "community"

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Watching : Scrubs. Listening to : Foo Fighters.

My first job ...

Trainee Accountant (boring!)

My best moment ...

the birth of my twin boys 10 years ago.

My inspiration ...

my grandfather. Musician, family man, hard worker!

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Can winning the presidential debates affect the election outcome?

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The Presidential debates can be an extremely powerful tool which enable the candidates to show their personality, oratory skills and get their message clear on a number of key issues. The interested audience is huge and their value is very large, but can they actually be effective enough to affect the outcome? I think not.

I firmly believe that a sophisticated, modern electorate is much more knowledgeable and refined for that to be the case and I have a keen sense of "quality will win" running through my veins.

To allow the debates themselves to affect enough people to actually decide...

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