My old neighbour, Ian, (now moved out to ‘the country’ for some peace and quiet from horrible neighbours) retired early from his City bank job, as they do, and decided to take a masters degree. In football. Ok, not football, exactly, but he was working (and possibly still may be) on a theory suggesting that – Read More-
What you’re looking at here is a miracle of modern times. Its no burning bush. Not even a burning car. Thank God, cos that’s Mel’s car. But miracle it is. Because last night we went to see Carol. Ahhhh, Carol. Oh Carol. It was at the Everyman in Hampstead. Which is the illuminated building behind – Read More-
Much as it grieves me to ever agree with Jeremy Corbyn, I don’t think we should bomb Syria. Make mine a ‘non’ vote. Not that I get a vote. Let me make perfectly clear (a political expression meaning ‘you won’t understand any of this’) my position. In case it impacts today’s crucial vote on the – Read More-
150 world leaders gathered in Paris yesterday for the first totally all-world global warming conference. I wasn’t invited. Bit annoying really, as I’ve reduced my carbon footprint to a size 2 and don’t burn any coal whatsoever. But conference they did. If ‘conference’ can be a verb. Probably is in America. Like ‘golf’. So the – Read More-
Not mine. I wasn’t fatigued. My team were. Spurs. Knackered. Shattered. Exhausted after their ‘quick’ trip to Azerbaijan for Thursday night’s game. Its a fact. Proven statistically. And statistics never lie. Except when they do. Which is often. But that’s mainly when they’re produced by some government agency or other. When produced by Carling Opta, – Read More-
There’s just no point avoiding it any more. Christmas is rapidly approaching. Which I know because: the ads on tv that you can’t fast-forward to escape are all about Christmas. there are lights in all the big streets of London you can’t drive anywhere near any kind of shopping centre or mall because there are – Read More-
Politcs is crumbling, before our very eyes. The entire fabric of government is in a shambolic mess. Grant Schapps, former chairman of the Conservative Party has resigned over involvement in the bully & rape scandal of the Tatler Tories. Or rather, his lack of involvement because he was in fact made aware and chose not – Read More-
David Cameron wants to bomb ISIS. His parliamentary party are largely, but not totally, in support. Fine, that’s what is known as ‘democracy’. Dissenters get a vote too. The Scots will vote against bombing, most of them, so Cameron needs support from the very many Labour mps who are in favour of the action. And – Read More-
Ain’t it great wot billionaires find to do with their money. Or, in the case of Jeff (Amazon) Bezios and Elon (paypal) Musk, wot they do with our money. They’ve been competing to produce the first rocket that can go into space and come back, unscathed, upright and intact. Oh, and on land. No prizes – Read More-
There are times when single events have massive, world-wide repercussions. That’s how wars start. Franz Ferdinand gets killed in Sarajevo, the next thing we have World War 1. They never called it ‘1’ at the time, that only came when the next one started and they needed to differentiate. Similarly events in Cuba 50 years – Read More-