Black Sabbath are playing their last ever gig this weekend. Appropriately, at Villa Park. Because what starts in Birmingham should emphatically end in Birmingham. No idea why, just sounds nicely profound. The band are old, Ossie Osbourne has Parkinson’s and it is probably time to call it a day. But you simply can’t underestimate the – Read More-
Rachel Reeves broke down in tears in parliament yesterday. And in doing so, caused a ‘mini-Liz Truss’ and crashed the markets. Three tears, a major tsunami on the trading floor. Not that anyone trades on a ‘floor’ any longer. They sit in luxurious offices with their Gucci-clad feet resting on a desk made from one – Read More-
So I never went to Glastonbury. Because it wasn’t Woodstock. And I truly, madly, deeply wanted to go to Woodstock. But my mum refused permission. On the grounds that I was 13 and it was in New York. In the days when traveling to Bournemouth was considered ‘exotic’ and going to Europe was only for – Read More-
Just before I start, an aside. Because as I was preparing supper the other day for ‘the monsters’, who obviously have completely different meals from each other, Joey was ‘helping’ me. And I looked over and saw he’d found a jar of peanut butter (and not just ANY peanut butter but deep-roast, crunchy, MANILIFE!, MY – Read More-
I’ll come clean. Be honest. I just went to McDonalds!l But it was for ‘a study’, nothing to do with eating. Ok, if you count ice cream, then we did ‘eat’. And the study was conducted whilst waiting for someone to download two streams of ice-cream into two cups. So, about 20 minutes in all. – Read More-
I’ve just returned from Croatia, where it was 32 degrees of… that new one, not the Farenheits, they’re just for old people and Americans, and I’ve been to Ayers Rock in mid-summer and Sydney in a heatwave, done Death Valley in August, went to a wedding in Ischia where the bride melted, along with most – Read More-
I went to Pizza Express the other night. To enjoy some music which I use an excuse to eat pizza. You need an excuse. Otherwise you are just ‘part of the problem!!’, getting four a week delivered by a blind-man-on-a-bike. Well that’s how they drive. Anyway… the venue was the one in Holborn. And on – Read More-
The government has proposed some massive welfare reforms. So massive that half the MPs won’t support it when the vote comes on Tuesday. Which, with a majority in the House of 943, will be something much more than a mere embarrassment for the PM. More than humiliation. It will be a much more Trumpian ‘obliteration’ – Read More-
I’ve just come back from my time in Croatia, and now I’ve got to pack once again to fly out to Venice. What? You didn’t get the invite to Jeff’n’Lauren’s wedding? Oh, you poor loser. Jeff invited me because of my constant and total refusal to sign up to ‘Prime’. And NOT signing up to – Read More-
Nigel Farage has come up with a totally brilliant idea for ‘when’ he becomes Prime Minister, in 4 years time. Brilliant. Like all his ideas. Because Nigel is the cleverest person in politics, by approximately 2,000 miles. Though looking at our government, that’s not such a heady position. And as well as clever, Nigel is – Read More-