The last time a team won the Scottish football league, OTHER THAN CELTIC OR RANGERS, was in 1984. Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen. Yesterday, in a ‘knock-out’ final match, Celtic played Herts in a (almost) winner takes all match. If they had drawn, Herts would have claimed the title. But alas and with an inevitability greater than – Read More-
You know me. I love a protest. A march. A rally. Get any three people together and I’ll pitch up with some relevant banners, flags or placards and lead the march, make a speech, jeer and boo, whatever. It’s a compulsion. Marchamania. I’m a protestaphile. But I’m not marching today. No. When possibly the 2 – Read More-
This promises to be the best weekend ever! It’s like the carnival has come to town! Not only is it the Eurovision Song Contest final!!!, which is the world’s finest exhibition of diversity, inclusivity and various degrees of abject poofery, but now we have the Labour leadership competition AT THE SAME TIME!!!! Totally brilliant. Though – Read More-
I live in a conservation area. Rule 1. You MUST have a hedge. No little brick walls, no iron gates with attack dogs, but a hedge. And for about 8 months of the year we have a kind of ‘apology’ for a hedge. Because it’s not ‘normal’ hedge stuff, but beech trees. And they’re deciduous – Read More-
So I was listening to LBC phone-in radio this morning. Because I like winding myself up into full angry mode before I eat my peanut butter on toast. Its just the way I am. But I truly deeply madly love Nick Ferrari because he manages to call people total moronic assholes in a lovely, charming – Read More-
There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good she was very, very good, and when she was bad she was horrid! And thus: Mathys Tel. When he was good he was very very good, and when he was bad he was – Read More-
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-