A massive event happened in my life on Wednesday. Not, going to Brent Cross in itself, though appreciate that is a trip which, like visiting Mecca for the Haj, happens once in a lifetime (AND NEVER NEEDS REPEATING!!!), but the purpose of the visit: to buy a new ipad!!! Because the old one was… a – Read More-
So the bastard muthafuckas of Hamas invaded Israel and murdered hundreds of people. Just people, living at home, playing with the kids, visiting grandparents, maybe working, all dead. Whatever their age, status, degree of ‘innocence’, just fucking dead. Another group picked a rock festival. Kids. Young adults. Just dancing, listening to the music, probably taking – Read More-
I went to the theatre AGAIN last night. Twice in a week. My yearly quota eaten up, I don’t have to go again til next July. Not that I mind the theatre (very gracious of me, I know, right?) but I find it far harder to ‘engage’ with than movies, which remain my medium of – Read More-
LinkedIn premable: The hardest thing I’ve ever written. Jews should read it. Non-Jews should read it. I suppose that means all of you. Jew & Me This post is about Judaism. This post is about Israel. Not suitable for LinkedIn? I thought I was meant to bring my ‘whole self’ to work. They are a – Read More-
There were 4,000 people… demonstrating?… protesting… ok, vigil-ing last night on Whitehall opposite Downing Street. According to the papers. I didn’t count but didn’t seem like quite that many to me, I’d have guessed 800. Spurs Paul was there, I saw The Wolfman and I know Tory Boy was there with his mate, The Very – Read More-
The Labour conference started yesterday. In Liverpool. And its really exiting, but like REALLY!!!! Because Labour have never, in anyone who still has the facility to remember anything’s memory, been in the situation of being ‘miles ahead’ in the opinion polls. Twenty points. ‘The election is theirs to lose!!!!’, as they say. So Labour don’t – Read More-
It’s all a matter of perspective. When I heard yesterday that 300 Israelis had been murdered in an attack by Hamas on the southern towns and kibbutzim, I was deeply saddened. But when I heard that 60 people had been ‘taken hostage’, I was near to tears. Just by the way, virtually all those murdered – Read More-
We’ll be watching tv, and on it will come… adverts!!! I know, who watches live tv, ffs??? but sometimes we do. And I’ll hear my wife utter a semi-silent “hmmm…” or “ooooh…” and I know that within two shakes of an Amazon delivery van, or possibly one brief visit to John Lewis, Waitrose, Robert Dyas, – Read More-
There is no direct Scouse translation for the phrase ‘victimless crime’. None that anyone south of Stoke could understand anyway. But the reason is; whatever happens, Liverpool FC are the victims. The word ‘victim’ now has a permanent place on the club logo, just under the Liver-bird and all new players are tattooed with the – Read More-
Here’s a great idea: we’ll build a brand new railway network, specifically to provide much faster north to south of the country links but also because the existing network and tracks are all Victorian and beaten to shit by a century of abuse and neglect, bit like the Royal family. So we need to replace – Read More-