150 world leaders gathered in Paris yesterday for the first totally all-world global warming conference. I wasn’t invited. Bit annoying really, as I’ve reduced my carbon footprint to a size 2 and don’t burn any coal whatsoever. But conference they did. If ‘conference’ can be a verb. Probably is in America. Like ‘golf’. So the – Read More-
Not mine. I wasn’t fatigued. My team were. Spurs. Knackered. Shattered. Exhausted after their ‘quick’ trip to Azerbaijan for Thursday night’s game. Its a fact. Proven statistically. And statistics never lie. Except when they do. Which is often. But that’s mainly when they’re produced by some government agency or other. When produced by Carling Opta, – Read More-
There’s just no point avoiding it any more. Christmas is rapidly approaching. Which I know because: the ads on tv that you can’t fast-forward to escape are all about Christmas. there are lights in all the big streets of London you can’t drive anywhere near any kind of shopping centre or mall because there are – Read More-
Politcs is crumbling, before our very eyes. The entire fabric of government is in a shambolic mess. Grant Schapps, former chairman of the Conservative Party has resigned over involvement in the bully & rape scandal of the Tatler Tories. Or rather, his lack of involvement because he was in fact made aware and chose not – Read More-
David Cameron wants to bomb ISIS. His parliamentary party are largely, but not totally, in support. Fine, that’s what is known as ‘democracy’. Dissenters get a vote too. The Scots will vote against bombing, most of them, so Cameron needs support from the very many Labour mps who are in favour of the action. And – Read More-
Ain’t it great wot billionaires find to do with their money. Or, in the case of Jeff (Amazon) Bezios and Elon (paypal) Musk, wot they do with our money. They’ve been competing to produce the first rocket that can go into space and come back, unscathed, upright and intact. Oh, and on land. No prizes – Read More-
There are times when single events have massive, world-wide repercussions. That’s how wars start. Franz Ferdinand gets killed in Sarajevo, the next thing we have World War 1. They never called it ‘1’ at the time, that only came when the next one started and they needed to differentiate. Similarly events in Cuba 50 years – Read More-
There’s a new, new, NEW Star Wars movie out next month. I think its the 7th. But probably will be called Star Wars 3.2, because they have a habit of bringing out prequels, sequels, before-they-were-all-borns, born-agains and a whole mish-mash of chronological confusion. Doesn’t really matter though; what’ll happen is that a bunch of planes/rockets/spaceships – Read More-
Leicester City are top of the Premiership. This is not some oddity on the first day of a new season when the Foxes happened to play the early match, beat Stoke 1-0 and go above all those still in alphabetical zero hell. No. Leicester have won matches. Loads of them. Jamie Vardie has scored in – Read More-
I only joined Uber, the taxi service thingy-app-wotsit and care home for ageing Toyotas, a few weeks ago. I don’t get a lot of taxis. But I felt I should get in the Uber groove. So I did. Not easily because nothing that happens between me and smart phone is easy. In fact I got – Read More-