On Question Time the other night for the weekly Dimbleby political debate, were the usual Westminster luminaries (UKIP), losers (lib-dem), tossers (tory) and no-hopers (labour), plus A.N.Other. They always have one. Someone outspoken and politically savvy, maybe a journalist, political columnist, author, satirist, tv commentator or someone ‘worthy’. This week it changed. They chose someone – Read More-
I’m not a religious man. Though if people get pleasure from praying 6 times a day, good luck to them. Whatever floats your beard. But I do appreciate the value, historically, of a religious framework for society which, in days of old (like those frikkin Romans) generally defaulted to debauchery, hedonism, slavery and murder based – Read More-
Mauricio Pochettino is the new manager at Spurs. Yay. We have a new boss. A new masterplan. A new broom. A new regime. A new methodology, a new paradigm, a new future, a WHOLE NEW FUCKING WORLD!!!!!!!! Ok, sorry about that. But its new; let’s leave it at that. And I’m really excited, really pleased, – Read More-
I once played in a sunday morning tennis tournament which was a charity fundraiser. The sun even shone, great event, people playing tennis at Haberdashers’ School, cos they have lovely tennis courts and lots of ’em. Great day. I’m gonna say me mate Jane and I came 12th. Possibly 7th, maybe 23rd. Irrelevent other than – Read More-
My wife has delicate feet. But, like really delicate. So she has ‘specialised shoes’. Shoes for every and any possible occurrence. Shoes for work, shoes for play, shoes for formal, informal, dress wear, shoes for walking (long distance), shoes for walking (muddy places), shoes for walking (places that aren’t long or muddy), and so it – Read More-
Its a catastrophe! (for the LibDems) Its terrible!! (for the European Union) Its awful!!! (for the conservatives and even worse for Labour) And its the end of the world!!! (for Nick Clegg) Europe has spoken!! And, with one voice, it has said: WE DON’T WANT ‘EUROPE’. Well, ‘Europe’ can be there but just as a – Read More-
I’m not a big tv watcher. Using Andy’s Calculation, there’s very little to watch. The Calculation goes like this: 99% of our 637 tv channels show 99% rubbish approximately (within 3 significant figures), 99% of the time. And I’m only interested in the remaining 1%. So we don’t ‘have the telly on’. Never. We turn – Read More-
I hate the rain. Tennis just got cancelled. The lawn can’t be mowed. The car’s wet. And we won’t be able to do lots of ‘things’ like walking, gardening, all those -ings that get done on bank holiday weekends. Another bank holiday weekend. The fifth this week. So it seems. But… and yet… though… if – Read More-
I generally avoid movies with the word ‘tomorrow’ in the title. I know; its a perfectly innocuous word, an everyday word, even an every-tomorrow word. But it has deep implications in the world of cinema. Because its a euphemism for ‘the future’. In fact it really is about the future, just normally not such a – Read More-
So sang the Clash in 1982 on the Combat Rock album, one of my all time top-whatever. It was a protest against Iran’s banning of music. All of it. No music. Its subversive. Degenerates the masses. Corrupts the populus. Evil westernism. Ban it. And they did, as part of the Islamisation of that fine (??) – Read More-