With a whole month to go before the American elections, Hillary has now, officially, ‘peaked too soon’. Doesn’t say it in the papers, nor the pundits, newspeople, but I’m saying it. She has now reached the ‘total fucking gutter’ of electioneering, leaving no-where else to go. She can get no lower, and she’s trying, she’s – Read More-
Tempers get heated at a UKIP ‘meeting’. In Strasbourg. Two UKIPpers ‘take it outside’ where an altercation occurs and one of them ends up in hospital after suffering seizures. That one was Steven Wolfe, one of the potential new leaders of their party. Nigel Farage, the leader, ex-leader, leader-again, ex-leader-again, now temporary leader once more, – Read More-
There are times in one’s life when choices need to be made. Sometimes uncomfortable choices. Big choices. Sophie’s choices. ‘Should I eat the lamb or the beef?’ Sometimes even more important than even that. ‘Should I vote Trump or Clinton?’ ‘Go to the football or out for dinner?’ That fine, upstanding nation of Iran (???) – Read More-
I’m always amazed when I look at the American presidential campaigns. Because they’re so different from our own. I know, we don’t have Presidents, we have a Queen, God bless her, and no-one votes for her. But we have Prime Ministers and that role has certainly, over the last 20 or so years, become much – Read More-
Dont’cha just hate it when you go to bed at night and wake up 9.6 million pounds of jewellery poorer? Oh, not again!!! you think. Phah! Kim Kardashian went to bed in Paris in a very shi-shi hotel. One that can provide the special beds she requires that don’t cause static electricity when in contact – Read More-
Manchester City were the team of the moment, they came to the Lane and endured some torment Six wins out of six, so far, thus the record showed But records are for breaking, their progress to be slowed Pep Guardiola, the total football man watched his scheme go right down the pan Against a Tottenham – Read More-
The first album I ever bought was ‘With the Beatles’. I was 7. Knew fuck-all about music, but I loved the Beatles. Because I was alive and conscious, in a 7 year-old kind’a way, and therefore I loved the Beatles. Everyone loved them. You simply had to. They were ‘different’ enough to be special, with – Read More-
This was me yesterday. Ok, this is just a random photo of the genre: ‘guided injections’. But imagine that victim as me, without the hat, and the jab was in my shoulder. Or jabs, really. The table rotates and raises and the big arm thing moves around, all by magic. I felt like a Ford – Read More-
Next week starts the London Film Festival. In fact, its the 60th LFF. A- n’anniversary version. So the BFI have decided to add something new. As well as screening the movies at the usual; Leicester Square Odeon, NFT at the Southbank, various other high profile movie-emporia, they’re adding a new one to the list. Except – Read More-
I find the whole Labour conference thing rather depressing. I find Jeremy Corbyn deeply depressing. But as we know, his job now is to try and unite his party. Which is deeeeeeply divided. Grand Canyon kind of divided. So whilst Jerkoff Jezza and Malicious McDonnell were up there singing ‘the red flag’ (swallowing back bits – Read More-