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-
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-
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-
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-
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-