Nonchalance is a wonderful and underused word and a consummate skill for the true exponent. And having just read a wonderful article in the Times which should have been entitled “I LOVE LIONEL MESSI WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!” but actually bore a slightly more eloquent and objective strap-line, it lead me onto nonchalant. The ability – Read More-
They’re funny things, children. Especially babies. They don’t say much that you’d wanna repeat but they do lots. Most of which is blatantly destructive, but all of which is really funny. Odd. Bizarre. Illogical. But they do it with such a charm, such wonderful total innocence that even Mel can’t get upset that the entire – Read More-
Stephen Hawking has died. Or been switched off. Or run out of charge. Whatever, the greatest genius Britain has produced since Isaac Newton and Bill Nicholson will roll his wheels no more. He is an ex-Lucasian Professor of Clever Stuff at Cambridge. And clever he was. Did you ever read ‘a Brief History of Time’? – Read More-
I really like this government. Because at no time before can I ever remember ‘triggering an article’ and yet now, so soon after ‘triggering article 50’ to get us out of Europe (and that seems to be going really… errrr… hmmm… really well?), it looks like we’re set to now trigger article 51. I mean, – Read More-
If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then what about absolute, eternal, total power forever? What does that do to the price of eggs? Because yesterday the National People’s Congress in Beijing voted to abolish the ‘2-term’ rule of leader by which the boss man can only serve 2 five-year terms as President. That – Read More-
What do you do when your football team is shit? This is a deep and profound question that goes to the very heart of the underlying philosophy of our national game. A less pretentious person would see the irony in intellectualising something that is far more animal, basic and visceral than ‘mere’ thought. But the – Read More-
The two New Yorkers, possibly hit-men, otherwise, probably something of low repute, for sure, certainly nothing requiring high levels of industry as they spent about 25 days out of 26 at the pool, were an odd couple. Steve was the ‘old man’ of our group at about 34. A big, burly, hairy New York Jew. – Read More-
There’s no disgrace in losing to Juventus in the Champions League. Its not like they were some unheard-of Swedish part-time minnows who scraped into the Europa League on alphabetical merit. They’re Juve. They’re frikkin’ massive. And they’ve made it to the C.League final twice in the last 3 years. Yet still it hurts. But more – Read More-
We’ve had the Leveson Inquiry, we’ve shut down the News of the World as a consequence due to Murdochian sleazy journalism and now it appears, on the very day that government suspended ‘Leveson 2, with a vengeance!’ or whatever it was called, the noble and hi-brow (ish) Sunday Times, Murdoch’s flagship journal, was acting in – Read More-
Who d’ya feel more sorry for; Arsene Wenger or Bradley Wiggins? One is a victim of his own self-important arrogance and the other… is pretty much the same. One is being hounded out by his own club’s supporters whilst the other has the entire mechanism of government railed against him and accusing him of being – Read More-