Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham is incensed by the BBC. They interviewed him on the radio, ostensibly to talk about his charity but then changed the agenda. Beefy’s charity the Country Food Trust, was to be the beneficiary of about 10,000 partridges and pheasants that will be shot on his estate. All the dead birds, to the – Read More-
Whilst the whole world is condemning President Maduro over there in Venezuela, one voice is still so silent that it has become almost deafening. That of Jeremy Corbyn. Jezza finds it very very hard to criticise any socialist, anywhere, anytime. No matter how many innocent civilians get killed, regardless of the rights that are removed, – Read More-
There’s a company in California that provides corporations with inspiration for future planning. By using Sci-fi short stories written by a hundred authors. Sci-fi becomes sci-fact. As it did with the ‘video-phone’. Which first appeared in lots of (generally really cheap) sci-fi movies and tv series in which a phone, nailed to a wall with – Read More-
We were in Paris the night Princess Diana died there. I personally had nothing to do with it. Honest. And as proof, I was never named in one of the 863 conspiracy theories that went round at the time. We were driving back from Disneyland and had to take a detour because the Peripherique was – Read More-
The football season is just days away now. The new one. New broom. All bets off. League table in alphabetical order. All to play for. Brighton have the same chance as Manchester City. Hmmm… Other than the 500 million quid difference between the teams. Manchester City have a back four costing almost 200 million. 3 – Read More-
How do you get a name like Reince Priebus? If JK Rowling doesn’t give it to you? You’d spend your entire childhood trying to unravel the “i before e except after r” conundrum. And once you’d sorted it out, you’d still have a really silly name. But Reince overcame this miserable childhood to become a – Read More-
How can I concentrate on the problems of the world when I keep getting distracted. Though if I have one pure and superlative skill, it is the ease with which I can be distracted. Always been the same. Homework to do, fine, then the tv comes on. Homework… later. But today’s distraction was a worthy – Read More-
Funny how you go on holiday and end up with no time whatsoever. Funny. I blame Lila. People generally are demanding in inverse proportion to their size. I worked this out when I met Mel. Very small, very demanding. Lila is a quantum leap in both directions. Really tiny yet can’t even tie her own – Read More-
So Jeremy Corbyn has back-tracked on his ‘promise’ to ‘sort out’ student debt. When he shouted and screamed about it for 3 months of electioneering he sounded pretty convincing. When he repeated it at Glastonbury a month later, the implication was not only that he continued to campaign against tuition fees but that student debts – Read More-
Bu-ut ohhhh, those su-ummer niiiiii-iiiiights… Ok, I loved Grease, no shame in that. Everybody loves it still. But I really loved it because I was deeply, madly, passionately in love with Olivia Newton-John. Just me and 37 million other teenage boys, and probably as many girls were in love with that gorgeous Aussie bird wot – Read More-