If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then what about absolute, eternal, total power forever? What does that do to the price of eggs? Because yesterday the National People’s Congress in Beijing voted to abolish the ‘2-term’ rule of leader by which the boss man can only serve 2 five-year terms as President. That – Read More-
What do you do when your football team is shit? This is a deep and profound question that goes to the very heart of the underlying philosophy of our national game. A less pretentious person would see the irony in intellectualising something that is far more animal, basic and visceral than ‘mere’ thought. But the – Read More-
The two New Yorkers, possibly hit-men, otherwise, probably something of low repute, for sure, certainly nothing requiring high levels of industry as they spent about 25 days out of 26 at the pool, were an odd couple. Steve was the ‘old man’ of our group at about 34. A big, burly, hairy New York Jew. – Read More-
There’s no disgrace in losing to Juventus in the Champions League. Its not like they were some unheard-of Swedish part-time minnows who scraped into the Europa League on alphabetical merit. They’re Juve. They’re frikkin’ massive. And they’ve made it to the C.League final twice in the last 3 years. Yet still it hurts. But more – Read More-
We’ve had the Leveson Inquiry, we’ve shut down the News of the World as a consequence due to Murdochian sleazy journalism and now it appears, on the very day that government suspended ‘Leveson 2, with a vengeance!’ or whatever it was called, the noble and hi-brow (ish) Sunday Times, Murdoch’s flagship journal, was acting in – Read More-
Who d’ya feel more sorry for; Arsene Wenger or Bradley Wiggins? One is a victim of his own self-important arrogance and the other… is pretty much the same. One is being hounded out by his own club’s supporters whilst the other has the entire mechanism of government railed against him and accusing him of being – Read More-
I’m not the biggest fan of Arsene Wenger. Though after yesterday I almost feel sorry for him. Almost. And I can’t stand Jose Morinho either. Because I don’t like managers who can’t lose with any grace, managers like Wenger and Morinho who always want to blame the ref, accuse everyone of persecuting their teams, the – Read More-
The ‘me too’ campaign have teamed up with the ‘time’s up’ brigade and formed a new, consolidated, cohesive and unified group that, quite frankly, you wouldn’t want to fuck with. I may have to rephrase that end bit. And although both those causes are noble, worthy and could both be replaced with ‘about fucking time!!!’ – Read More-
A word of good cheer for the inevitably miserable, depressed, suicidal and gloomy Arsenal fans. Just when those poor devils thought that yet another season under the management of the depressing Frenchman was set to end, yet again, with absolutely nothing to show for it, other than how awful their team is, a little good – Read More-
Now this is proper snow. Its not two-and-a-half millimetres of ‘the wrong kind of snow’ which fucks up trains from Yarmouth to Inverness, its not just a ‘light scattering’ as we normally get for about 10 minutes before it melts. No. This is proper. This is close-the-schools, build-a-snowman, get yer sledge out, stay-at-home and don’t – Read More-