Funny how you go on holiday and end up with no time whatsoever. Funny. I blame Lila. People generally are demanding in inverse proportion to their size. I worked this out when I met Mel. Very small, very demanding. Lila is a quantum leap in both directions. Really tiny yet can’t even tie her own – Read More-
So Jeremy Corbyn has back-tracked on his ‘promise’ to ‘sort out’ student debt. When he shouted and screamed about it for 3 months of electioneering he sounded pretty convincing. When he repeated it at Glastonbury a month later, the implication was not only that he continued to campaign against tuition fees but that student debts – Read More-
Bu-ut ohhhh, those su-ummer niiiiii-iiiiights… Ok, I loved Grease, no shame in that. Everybody loves it still. But I really loved it because I was deeply, madly, passionately in love with Olivia Newton-John. Just me and 37 million other teenage boys, and probably as many girls were in love with that gorgeous Aussie bird wot – Read More-
Ok, so here’s what you need to know about Malta. So this won’t be a long message. Because Malta is very small. Tiny. Yet its a proper country and a republic too. AND, its actually part of the EU. In fact it is officially the chair-nation, or whatever they call that dubious honour, of the – Read More-
So there we were, me and Lila, discussing the finer points of worker’s entitlement, the democratic rights of the proletariat, the dissolution of the imperial ruling classes as proposed by Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Diane Abbott, when she fell asleep. In the water. The pool gently splashing her little body and then in – Read More-
So yesterday we had the big ‘reveal’ as the BBC announced the outraaaaaaageous salaries paid to its ‘stars’. In particular, its men stars. Who get paid more than the women and more of them get on the list (150k+ for entry), in fact 2/3rds of those were men. And I’d like to say, here and – Read More-
The BBC is today publishing its accounts. And for the first time it has to include the actual salaries of its ‘stars’. Anyone earning more than 150 grand a year has to be named. And shamed!! Though earning lots of money is not really much of a shame, in the normal sense. But the BBC – Read More-
The biggest killer in the world today is dementia. You’d think it was Assad, ISIS, moped-riding stabbers, but you’d be wrong. Dementia. And the best way to avoid it is to eat. Ok, I’m listening now. And salivating. Going to McDonalds to ‘eat my way out of mental disease’. Make that 3 Big Macs and – Read More-
Its all about ‘quality. Innit. As in ‘equality’ but pronounced in a more East Luunduun, or Sarf Luunduun, or even west Essex kind’a way. And there’s nothing wrong with equality. The director general of the CBI is a woman. The head of the Metropolitan Police is a woman. The Prime Minister is mostly a woman. – Read More-
Spoke to a friend this morning on the way to tennis. She went yesterday to Chichester to see Fidler on the Roof. Starring Omid Djalili as Tevya. And I thought; that is the real beauty of the much-abused term ‘multi-culturalism’. A Christian Iranian comedian playing a Polish Chassidic Jewish milkman. And apparently, quite brilliantly. Mel – Read More-