Those poor Scotland fans, as they said on the news, had to travel through six time zones to watch their pathetically awful football team lower their bar even further by losing to a team 80 places below them in the rankings. Never before have so many kilts travelled to Kazakhstan. A country whose national sport – Read More-
Do you remember when all you had to be was a ‘remainer’ or a ‘leaver’? Ahhhh, they almost seem like the heady, halcyon days of some sepia-coloured yesteryear of romance and love about Brexit. Because then came hard or soft. Next up was ‘deal or no deal’. And now we have yet another division: long – Read More-
We need to exercise. Said so in the Times. Front page news. Boils down to this: exercise is probably pretty good for you. Who’d’a known that?? But to labour the point, an American study found that just 10 minutes a week of something like a ‘brisk walk’ or dancing, reduces your likelihood of dying within – Read More-
I don’t generally rush to see Oscar winning movies. If they were ‘worthy’ I’d have seen them on first release. Unless we were too busy in which case I wouldn’t. Got that? So for various reasons, I missed The Favourite. Which was nominated for every Oscar imaginable, except for Best Short Animation, and won just – Read More-
I wasn’t engaged in the football this weekend. I took 2 days off. Well, not completely ‘off’ in any normal definition of ‘not being on’, but just relatively. Firstly because I had work to do regarding the rugby, and secondly because Spurs weren’t playing so the whole program becomes devalued, reduced, turns to black’n’white. As – Read More-
We all have a cultural frame of reference. Mine is The Blues Brothers. I love that film. Always have. And one line always springs to mind (strange mind; what can I say?) at certain times. “I hate Illinois Nazis!” said John Belushi’s ‘Jake’ just before they drove their car straight into a whole procession of – Read More-
Extremists! Phah!!! It’s easy to become an extremist. Here’s all you have to do: 1. Go online 2. Pick your extremism of choice from the wonderful array on offer. For those unable to decide from all the mouth-watering options, there’s web-sites that can help. Radicalised-R-Us is a good one. Compare the Murderers.com. And U-switch-blade, will – Read More-
To every problem there is a solution. Except the ones that can’t be solved. Then you need something of an ‘accommodation’, a compromise. An agreement. Nice. Then came Brexit. And re-wrote the entire definition of a ‘problem’. And there are two in particular that are big. The first is (fucking) Ireland. The border between north – Read More-
OMG! American celebs have been caught paying people to get their marginally average children into top-flight colleges so the celebs can enjoy the vicarious vanity of ‘my daughter’s at Stanford, akk-cherlaay’, or ‘my son’s at Harvard, innit’. And I only care because one of the ‘guilty’ is Felicity Huffman. Who is not just really funny – Read More-
It was exciting. For something involving Brexit it was very exciting. I watched it ‘live’. On the news channel. It showed an empty room. Called ‘the House of Commons’. Its always empty, you get a few bods lolling around in the back, half asleep, often someone talking at the front, but no-ones listening. Its just – Read More-