Well, it had to happen. The Ashes started and then, just a few days later, it finished. The first test. Failed. Miserably. Leading, inevitably, to a national gloat-fest by the Aussies. Fair. We’d do the same. Just not as horribly. So now our only hope, as it always has been really, lies with Ben Stokes. – Read More-
“Ich bin ein Spurs fan!!” Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing when JFK uttered those famous words. No-one knows why he said them, but just lived in that moment. And if JFK represented, in 1963, everything that was great about the West, that was good, honest, adorable, loveable, peaceful (ish) and wondrous, then by – Read More-
I’ve been to Berlin. Went 2 years ago. Totally brilliant city. More interesting than Romford, more beautiful than Wigan, more history than Milton Keynes, better vibe than Aberdeen and Wandsworth combined. That good. More than good; wonderful. But that’s not why we’re here again. This isn’t just a ‘weekend break’, nor a ‘city mini-holiday’, no. – Read More-
Football’s ruling ‘elite’ really are a bunch of tossers. Their belief in ‘the status quo’ is so overwhelming that they seldom, if ever, actually do anything. They don’t have to, they’re part of football, the biggest gravy-train there is. But sometimes even the FA and their partners in crime simply have to yield to pressure. – Read More-
Today is ‘Thanksgiving’, so… errrr… congratulations? to all Americans? Thanks?? And a belated ‘sorry’ to Canadians for forgetting their one a couple weeks’ ago. So easy to forget Canadians. Because Thanksgiving is a big deal over there, where here, it barely even registers. But if you ask most Americans what they’re, precisely, giving thanks for, – Read More-
A lawyer is suing Oxford University. Nothing unusual there; lawyers sue people all the time. But this is the lawyer himself suing the University because when he studied (modern history) there, in 2000, he only achieved a low 2.1 degree. Which has held back his legal career sufficiently to sue the University for £1million that – Read More-
Do you remember when a ‘virus’ was a microbial sort of thing? Nothing digital about it, nothing to do with technology, more to do with vomitus? With feeling like you’re going to die, then wishing you could die, then sweating a lot, shivering, shaking, all the while feeling much too hot and much too cold – Read More-
Things I really love: (in no particular order) Sunday morning tennis in the sunshine. Gypsy Kings at the Royal Festival Hall last night. Food. Lila smiling. Lila sitting. Lila… anything. Food. (“you said ‘food’; I like ‘food’”) England beating Australia at Twickenham. England beating Australia anywhere else. Things I really hate: (in strict ranking) Arsenal – Read More-
Who invents this shit? Somebody, somewhere decided that babies have difficulties eating yoghurt off a spoon. Which is true, they can’t really hold a spoon properly (doh; they’re fucking babies; of course they can’t; they can’t do anything properly, its why we have them), so let’s invent a canny thing. A ‘bag’ of yoghurt with – Read More-
Its amazing what can finally become the ‘last straw’. In the case of Zimbabwe the last straw is Mrs Mugabe. They’ve put up with (not that they had much say in the matter) Robert Mugabe for 37 years. During which time he has, (in no particular order): taken a productive and economically viable nation and – Read More-