Went out for dinner last night. With some friends. So when Harry Kane scored the first goal for Spurs, a beautiful, stunning wonderstrike, I immediately called our local fish’n’chip shop to book a table. Then Lucas Moura hit a second. So I cancelled the chippie and booked El Vaquero instead. Seemed only fair. But then – Read More-
Normally, following my morning martial arts (fighting with wooden poles, in a friendly way), I’d spend the following hour or so playing tennis. But not today. As a ‘one off’ hopefully, and not ‘the shape of things to come’, I instead spent 75 minutes inside an MRI scanner. Nice there. Listened to LBC. Almost drowned – Read More-
One week. Six more days. Ok, almost 1 week. And then we’ll know EVERYTHING. The fighting will be over, the battles ended, the… the other things… done! We’ll know who is to be our next Prime Minister. And with what kind of majority. We’ll know whether Brexit will ‘get done’ (a phrase which has become – Read More-
Amazon started off selling books. Jeff Bezos’ brainchild was to discount book prices and deliver them to people’s homes. A noble idea and it was fairly successful. But not enough for the Bezos-es-iz of this world. So he ‘diversified’. And now is the richest man the world has ever known, without ever getting oil on – Read More-
I’m a terrible cynic when it comes to ‘statistics’. Not that maths doesn’t work, or is somehow ‘broken’, or I doubt the ability of statisticians to get the right answer, its just that I can’t help but ask certain questions. Like ‘who is paying for the statistical analysis?’, like ‘are they including all data, including – Read More-
I’m an old fashioned kind’a dude. I make tea with leaves. I drive cars with petrol. And I watch films on a cinema screen. In fact, I’m a fucking dinosaur. So I was shocked on Sunday when I heard from two people in the space of a few hours that they’d both watched ‘The Irishman’, – Read More-
I’ve just watched the Jeremy Corbyn interview with Andrew Neil. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it before but never watched it all. And its wonderful. And terrible. And awful. And brilliant. And hilarious. And depressing. Not forgetting predictable. AN: “you’re an anti-Semite, Mr Corbyn, with thousands of cases in your party of reported anti-semitism – Read More-
Spurs kicked off at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. What an odd time for a game of football. But it happens. And in fact remains the only part of our national game that remains outside the control of various tv companies. So in protest I went to the V&A. Because I’m cultured. Sophisticated. Metrosexual. And because – Read More-
So how’d that go then? Letting Usman Kahn, convicted of terrorism charges, out of prison ‘under license’, wearing a digital tag, because he’d been ‘de-radicalised’? How’d that go? I’ll tell you how it went; the obscene fucker stabbed 5 people, randomly, killing two of them, and then incurred the wrath of London. Or, more specifically, – Read More-
What constitutes a ‘safe job’ in football management? Actually, there isn’t one. Mauricio Pochettino was the 22nd sacking this season of a club manager (across all the 4 divisions). The first was Sol Campbell, ironically, given rumours, by very optimistic Arsenal fans, that Poch my cross ‘the divide’ and assist their blighted, beleaguered… buggered club. – Read More-