Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

2026

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May 8, 2026

decisions, divisions…

The thing I like about politics is that I love satire. And normally, you have to work out the satirical things and illuminate or illustrate them to get a cheap laugh. Whereas politics does it all by itself. All you have to do is say what actually happened and everyone falls about in fits of – Read More-

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May 7, 2026

All change…

I’m a political animal. Probably a cross between a skunk and a hyena. Maybe a bit of rat in there. Oh, and tiger. I like tigers. But I ‘quite literally’ (NB, when used in any political sense, the term ‘quite literally’ means whatever follows is seven million miles from ‘literal’; it may be metaphorical, hyperbolical, – Read More-

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May 6, 2026

accumulation…

In the days before the gambling industry took over the world, offering betting from the comfort of your own anywhere, you needed to ‘go to a gambling establishment’ to place your bet. You could ‘just pick up your phone’, back in 1975, but only to call the bookies. That phone had no other capabilities. And – Read More-

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May 4, 2026

Life on the open waves…

You hear gym people (tossers) saying how they ‘bench twice their body weight’, as they pose their oiled-up ‘roid-ridden bodies in the mirror. Well real men don’t fuck about with pushing a few kilos around. We shlep 20 tons of boat along with a tug-of-war rope! Not saying I won every time, when the currents – Read More-

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May 2, 2026

Hate…

I’ve never been on a ‘hate march’. Even though I have certainly attended a lot of other marches, and rallies, and demonstrations since October 2023, when the world got even more fucked up that it ever was before. I’ve chanted ‘shame!’ at the BBC in Langham Place, but the building neither replied nor defended itself. – Read More-

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April 30, 2026

Closer and closer…

We went out with friends for dinner last night. Booked it a few days ago. Just somewhere ‘local’, so we went to our favourite. Ok my favourite. I have as many ‘absolute favourite restaurants’ as I have ‘absolute favourite movies’. But the Hummus Bar is wonderful. And the… errrr… hummus, is outstanding. It happens to – Read More-

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April 29, 2026

Master of the universe…

I bought my e-bike for a specific reason. Bloody tube strikes. When a strike was called, I in turn called me-mate-Mark, to borrow his e-bike. Which had sat in a corner of his house since he’d bought it, annoying his wife. Who prefers different types of ornaments. So, several tube strikes later, I bought it – Read More-

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April 27, 2026

missing you already…

How can they miss? There’s been not one, not two, but THREE!!! assassination attempts on Donald Trump during this presidency, and they’ve all missed. I mean, Americans are full of guns, full of target practice, they have laser guided sights, they have machine guns, shotguns, handguns and yet… he lives. What? He’s not big enough? – Read More-

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April 26, 2026

Through a blue-and-white lens…

I’d like to discuss the ‘world of football’. I’m not actually talking about the leagues, the non-league teams, the Bundesliga, La Liga, Le Liga or any other fucking Liga, nor international football, World Cups, nothing like that. I want to ‘refine the search’. I want to ‘focus in’. Because my poor, tragically abused Spurs mind – Read More-

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April 25, 2026

Tragedy and Justice…

We will all share in the mourning of poor Ernie Dosio. Even though we never heard of him whilst he was alive for 75 years. Lots of animals had heard of him. Though they probably never heard the shot of the bullet that killed them from Ernie’s rifle, as bullets travel faster than sound and – Read More-

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