Once again I feel compelled to invoke all the superlatives laced with abject hyperbole to put across how important the match at White Hart Lane tonight is. “The most important, critical, essential, must-win game EVER PLAYED” is a tragically insufficient description. Because with West Ham losing to Arsenal yesterday (more about that later; much more), – Read More-
So it all got a little ‘Citizen Smith’ today. They had the rivalries between the Socialist Worker’s Party and the Party for Socialist Workers, with the Working Socialist Party disagreeing with both of them. Well we had a ‘march against Antisemitism’ today, in Whitehall. Organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. But the Board of Deputies – Read More-
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-
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-
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-
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-