Politicians don’t like lying on the record. They love lying, do it all the time, but in the public eye they rein it in for obvious reasons. And at that point, they obfuscate. They blur things, equivocate, ‘muddy the waters’. Ask Jeremy Corbyn any question about anti-semitism and he answers ‘I’m opposed to all kinds – Read More-
I’m just into declining a few verbs this morning, brushing up the old Latin in case I decide to become a Catholic. But those 2 words are in fact very relevant to last night’s little escapade. In their own little ways. We had free cinema tickets. Lila’s mum has one of those fit-bit things that – Read More-
You have a choice. You can buy a football team’s worth of international megastars. It’ll cost you 300 million quid, the cost of Man City’s starting line-up on Saturday when they play Brighton (31 million; the whole team, less than City’s goalkeeper). Or you can buy cheaper players. Maybe those with prospects, the young ones, – Read More-
The world is on a precipice. Not since October 1962 have we been on ‘the verge’ in such a horribly, dangerously, vergish kind of way. Back then it was Khrushchev and Kennedy playing ‘handbags’ with nukes. Two essentially intelligent, decent, moral (except for Kennedy), guys caught up in Cold War mania and for one dreaded – Read More-
Who are your heroes? Your real heroes? People you admire beyond all others. Or have admired, cos they can certainly be historical. Maggie Thatcher? Churchill? Mozart? Da Vinci? Paul Weller? Jeremy Corbyn? Isaac Newton? Donald Trump? Carl Marx? Groucho Marx? My heroes are, in no particular order: Einstein, Glenn Hoddle, Taylor Swift, Charles Darwin, Paul – Read More-
You kind’a have to look at the ‘big picture’ sometimes. Because things are connected. Its all good saying ‘3 units of alcohol a day will reduce risk of diabetes’ but it obviously increases the risk of liver problems, alcoholism, vomiting on the tube (if you choose ‘before breakfast’ as your chosen medication time). Similarly with – Read More-
Its all starting today. The football season is BACK!! Sky tv has now an official football-exclusive designated channel which won’t become the darts channel at 8 o’clock, or the world mountain biking championship channel at 02.15. No. Even insomniacs can enjoy football for 24 hours a day. Every day. Lovely. And it all starts today – Read More-
“Russian inquiry robs voters of democracy”, said Donald Trump. What he didn’t say was which voters. I reckon he was actually talking about Russian voters as really they’d be the only ones to lose out if the US presidential election was to be ‘reversed’ or re-run or whatever would be deemed necessary if it should – Read More-
I love my garden. Its semi-classic, semi-wild and semi-lunacy (that’ll be the giraffe). Three semis. A mathematical impossibility but a lovely place to sit in the summertime. Takes a lot of care. Apparently. So I mow the lawn. That’s my job. Man’s job. Mel does more delicate things with little scissor things and special gardening – Read More-
Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham is incensed by the BBC. They interviewed him on the radio, ostensibly to talk about his charity but then changed the agenda. Beefy’s charity the Country Food Trust, was to be the beneficiary of about 10,000 partridges and pheasants that will be shot on his estate. All the dead birds, to the – Read More-