They’ve finally ‘liberated’ Aleppo. Hooray. The good guys marched in and outed the bad guys and they’ll all live happily ever after. That can only be good news. But for whom? Well its good news for Assad, because he gets his country back. What’s left of it. And its good news for Russia, because they’ve – Read More-
Its a funny ole game, is football. Jimmy Greaves words, set in stone, the foundation block of the apparently random and capricious nature of football. Any team can beat any team; on the day. Anything can happen. As they often do. Shitty teams beat high flyers, top teams fail to finish things off, last minute, – Read More-
Don’t know if you realise but Christmas is fast approaching. If the endless ads on tv didn’t alert you to this, nor the lights on every street, nor the 7 miles queues for every shopping centre in the land, then that’s just because you’re either stupid or, like me, in denial. But you can only – Read More-
Someone kindly sent me an amazing set of photos. Yesterday, the day Theresa May announced a formal definition of antisemitism for the UK, in case people don’t know what the term means, a set of quite incredible old photos arrived in my in-box which certainly relate to the term. This one is my favourite because – Read More-
Look at this ‘table’: 1. Chelsea 2. Manchester United 3. Liverpool 4. Manchester City 5. Arsenal 6. Spurs Now look at the league table: 1. Chelsea 2. Arsenal 3. Liverpool 4. Man City 5. Spurs 6. Man United. The first table is the ‘most hated football team’ as voted by groups of fans representing all – Read More-
My mate Rob, with whom I’ve worked for 12 years, never willingly moves. He doesn’t gym, he doesn’t play anything more taxing than an a cd and he won’t walk if a bus can take him there in just twice as long. He’s a bit overweight. Yet he never has an ache, a pain, a – Read More-
I’m not a religious man. I would be but I simply can’t see the point. If you pray to a God you need to see results. I’m a materialist atheist. And you don’t see results. When someone gets over the flu people say ‘thank God, she’s better’. When they die of cancer they say ‘well, – Read More-
Who speaks for ‘us’? I don’t mean ‘me and you’ or even ‘my family’, but who speaks for ‘us’, the entire nation of British people, and some Scots? Not sure about the Northern Irish but feel duty-bound to include them just this time. Because the government is elected by us, though never all of ‘us’, – Read More-
Went out for dinner last night. The ‘works Christmas dinner’. Obviously there was no turkey involved, if Jesus was around today he’d eat Asian Fusion, like the rest of us. So it was that we trecked across to fancy Fitzrovia to our destination, upmarket (read: eyewatering), trendy (dark), Asian experience. We were met by a – Read More-
Mark Carney, in an address in Liverpool yesterday, asserted all manner of stuff, as the governor of the Bank of England would. He actually questioned whether free-market capitalism is still viable, though failed to mention too many alternative models. Now that Fidel Castro is dead. And he bemoaned the plight of the now legendary ‘working – Read More-