What makes you happy? A sunny morning? A beautiful woman? A sculpture? Your children? The feel of your lover? The sound of the birds? News that Donald Trump has been assassinated? It can be anything. We’re all different. But with so much shit happening in the world, some balance is always required. For every piece – Read More-
It would have become ‘Charlotteville-gate’ but its too long to print on t-shirts and it would go round your coffee mug twice. So instead we’ll call it ‘The Fuck Up’. Which is nothing if not completely accurate. An object lesson in how not to handle a disaster. By Donald J. Trump. The town of Charlotteville – Read More-
Danny Finklestein at the Times argues today that we ignore genetic influence on behaviour at our peril. He makes this point after the recent sacking at Google of the guy who said there are less women working there because they’re more ‘neurotic’. Fair comment. Or not. Google thought not. Or thought they had to say – Read More-
Ok, its back. Official. Started. The football. We’re there. After the inevitable summer 8 weeks of hell, the premiership started again last weekend. And it started on a Friday night. That’s a first. There used to be a big fanfare, now there’s a big payoff. The quid pro quo being; we need to put more – Read More-
Politicians don’t like lying on the record. They love lying, do it all the time, but in the public eye they rein it in for obvious reasons. And at that point, they obfuscate. They blur things, equivocate, ‘muddy the waters’. Ask Jeremy Corbyn any question about anti-semitism and he answers ‘I’m opposed to all kinds – Read More-
I’m just into declining a few verbs this morning, brushing up the old Latin in case I decide to become a Catholic. But those 2 words are in fact very relevant to last night’s little escapade. In their own little ways. We had free cinema tickets. Lila’s mum has one of those fit-bit things that – Read More-
You have a choice. You can buy a football team’s worth of international megastars. It’ll cost you 300 million quid, the cost of Man City’s starting line-up on Saturday when they play Brighton (31 million; the whole team, less than City’s goalkeeper). Or you can buy cheaper players. Maybe those with prospects, the young ones, – Read More-
The world is on a precipice. Not since October 1962 have we been on ‘the verge’ in such a horribly, dangerously, vergish kind of way. Back then it was Khrushchev and Kennedy playing ‘handbags’ with nukes. Two essentially intelligent, decent, moral (except for Kennedy), guys caught up in Cold War mania and for one dreaded – Read More-
Who are your heroes? Your real heroes? People you admire beyond all others. Or have admired, cos they can certainly be historical. Maggie Thatcher? Churchill? Mozart? Da Vinci? Paul Weller? Jeremy Corbyn? Isaac Newton? Donald Trump? Carl Marx? Groucho Marx? My heroes are, in no particular order: Einstein, Glenn Hoddle, Taylor Swift, Charles Darwin, Paul – Read More-
You kind’a have to look at the ‘big picture’ sometimes. Because things are connected. Its all good saying ‘3 units of alcohol a day will reduce risk of diabetes’ but it obviously increases the risk of liver problems, alcoholism, vomiting on the tube (if you choose ‘before breakfast’ as your chosen medication time). Similarly with – Read More-