Well, the day that ended with Manchester City winning the most coveted thing in proper (ie European) football; the ‘treble’, started not quite as well when 5am passed and the taxi coming to whisk us to Heathrow hadn’t shown up. They normally arrive ten minutes early and you either hear them outside or get the – Read More-
I first went to Israel in July, 1976. The ‘kibbutz experience’ was by miles the cheapest way to ‘travel’, ‘stay away from home f’ra bit’ and ‘holiday’. Even though you work 6 days a week, so its not, like, Club Med, and the rooms are less ‘The Savoy’ and more ‘Stalag 14’, but that’s all – Read More-
We love a Sheikh, us football fans. Can’t get enough. Man City have got one, and you can’t get more successful than them. Newcastle have got one and look how brilliantly they’ve improved since his arrival! And now Man United might get their own. I never knew there were so many Sheikhs in the world. – Read More-
This is the answer to my dreams! And of course, it took Apple to realise precisely what I didn’t need, what I’ve never needed, never wanted, and yet make me see the rest of my life in new and different terms, dependent on their design team. Because now, I’ll be liberated from walking down the – Read More-
This is what’s now known as ‘the Harry Kane question’. Should he stay at Spurs for the lurve or move somewhere else for success. Somewhere like… Manchester United!!! You simply can’t get ‘bigger’ than that But… but… if he’s moving ‘to win things’, which all the world’s media feel he should, if nothing else, to – Read More-
What does summer mean to you? Cricket at Lords? Tennis without an umbrella? Top down on the car? Shorts’n’t-shirts? Liberation from football woes? Or ice cream? I wear shorts all year, because I’m a bit daft, play tennis in any weather and actually prefer it when its not too hot and similarly will always drive – Read More-
The government refuses to give up all its private WhatsApp messages to the inquiry into Boris’s Covid behaviour. The latest inquiry. Part 7: “The CRISIS!!!” In previous parts we’ve had partygate, Dominic-Cummings-gate and the garden gate, through which Boris goes out for his daily run. To prove every day, as he has for the past – Read More-
Apparently we (and I speak here for ALL of humanity) are facing extinction. Not the one that’s coming because of global warming, that’ll take some time. This one is from Artificial Intelligence. Its not mere conspiracy theorists spouting their normal bollocks either, this message comes from the 350 most eminent men in the AI field. – Read More-
I just want to mention Philip Schofield, not cos I like him, dislike him, have ever watched him or give two shits for anything he says or does. I just want to mention him. Simply because in this whole ‘I’M QUITTING ITV, FREVVER!!!!’ irrelevant, ‘who cares’ bullshit currently dominating all the headlines, one thing struck – Read More-
We went to an exhibition yesterday. In Kensington. Which is dead posh, obviously. We walked through Holland Park to get there and you can’t get posher than that. Its where Rishi Sunak lives, ffs, so you know there’s money around. Not in the park though which, although really beautiful, was full of Russians and Poles – Read More-