Shamima Begum wants to come ‘home’. To Britain. Where she was born. Where she was raised. Where she lived until she was 15. At which point, along with 2 mates, she took the very long and winding road to Syria, via Turkey, to join ISIS. And although as we all know, a 15 year old – Read More-
Its a truly beautiful morning here in London town. Springlike. Sunny. Mild. Gorgeous. The flowers are getting ready to bloom, the birds are singing their songs and Spurs beat Dortmund in the Champions League last night. How could any day get better than that? Lila turning up at half seven was a massive bonus, day-wise. – Read More-
Decades before some pretentiously right-on, anonymous graffiti-fucker started daubing neo-political messages on the back gate of number 73 Halstead Grove, Esher and other such ‘galleries’, the world was blessed with another ‘Banksie’. This one also an artist. But of a different type. An artist of the goalkeeping type. And whilst asking the normally rhetorical question: – Read More-
Its a 3-horse race. The fight for the Premier League. 3 teams left with a proverbial ‘shout’. And one of them, lets’ be fair/honest/realistic, is possibly suffering from equine flu, in the wold of stretched metaphors. But even limping along, those mighty Spurs keep hitting the net when it counts, keep seeing off opposing teams, – Read More-
If I had to choose between being a vegan or becoming totally ‘carb-free’, I think I’d just get on a plane to Switzerland and let Dignitas have its way. (Note to any potential suicides out there: I CERTAINLY WOULDN’T JUMP UNDER A SODDING TUBE TRAIN BECAUSE ITS THE MOST HORRIBLE, INCONSIDERATE, SELFISH AND EVIL THING – Read More-
Oh, now I get it. It’s taken me a while, but now I get the whole ‘Corbyn’ thing. Ahhhhh. In a MORI poll published yesterday, Our Jezza polled the lowest popularity for any political leader since Michael Foot in 1983. Its taken 36 years to find a leader almost as hated by the public as – Read More-
Its a harsh, cruel world, in all its grim reality. Which is why you may have noticed (or not) that my postings of the vital information I provide most days has been a little more ‘random’ than usual. More erratic. Not in content, that’s always random and erratic. Abusive. Insulting. Disrespectful. Hate-filled. Lila-obsessed… That’s why – Read More-
Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery What do you feel when you read a headline like this? Is it disgust? Shame? (Catholics) Envy? (priests) Or just ‘same shit different day’? I thought nuns and priests was just for certain particular porn-sites but heh, in art as in life. What gets me most – Read More-
As the world gets more populated, it consumes more meat. As it becomes more affluent, it consumes more meat. I should probably add: ‘as it becomes more obese and heart-clogged, its eating more meat’, but that wasn’t part of the study I read so I’ll leave it out for statistical purposes. But as the world – Read More-
Ok, so I couldn’t play tennis yesterday as there was an inch of frozen ice covering the courts. Which, rather pissily, is still there this morning. As temperatures here have stayed at about -15 for a week. Ok, -1 for a couple of days, but that’s cold enough. Chicago the other day was -27. Though – Read More-