We need to talk about Scotland. I’ve avoided it out of my love for that amazingly beautiful nation, the total majesty of which I toast every night with a symbolic sampling of its finest product. But when the former First Minister’s husband gets arrested, their house gets impounded and the caterers set up a marquee – Read More-
I embrace ‘new technology’. Normally, once it has had a chance to ‘mature’ a little and become fairly ‘old technology’. I’m scared of new shit, basically. Find it opaque, hostile and nasty. I was the last person in the world to use an app in any meaningful way. I only downloaded WhatsApp because of pressure – Read More-
Rishi Sunak wants every adult to be ‘numerate’. To have maths skills. And I completely agree. But to what level does he wish us to achieve? Addin’? Minus-in’? Multiplyin’??? Diviiiiidin’??? That’s really hard shit. I get that if you want to be a decent darts player you need both adding AND subtraction skills to a – Read More-
If I was an American, from San Francisco, say, and a massive 49ers fan, but I then had to move to Boston for work/family/affair-with-a-Kennedy/whatever, I’d spend every Sunday thereafter as a fan of the Patriots. All the claret-and-gold shit, the caps, shirts, flags, would be ceremoniously or metaphorically burned and in would come the New – Read More-
So I was mowing my lawn, as ya do… well, as I do, you don’t cos you’re an old bourgeoise capitalist, probably Brexiteer, who wouldn’t get his hands dirty. Well I love dirty hands. Always have. Anyway, as I was filling up the mower I thought: I now spend more money on petrol for the – Read More-
We’re going out looking for life. Its out there somewhere. Not here, on Earth, that’s all doom and depression and gloom and Arsenal top of the league. We’re looking for life… elsewhere!!! To be precise, on the moons of Jupiter. Well, why not? Gotta start somewhere. So we are going, and that’s proper, European ‘we’, – Read More-
We went to Northampton yesterday. As ya do. Well, there’s an amazing play centre there, the likes of which don’t exist down in high rent land as you need acres of space for laser-quest and dodgem cars for kids and climbing walls and indoor mini-golf and all the other wonders that little kids lurve. We – Read More-
So here’s the question: do you want to be fat and fertile or slim and sterile? Its a big question. But may get less big if you opt for the latter. Because they’ve been examining the new ‘fasting diets’, where you don’t eat on Tuesday, or you only eat til 7 at night and then – Read More-
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, there was all manner of deprivation inherent in our post-war, baby-boom lives. Ok, we had sugar, all we wanted, so ‘sweets’ were hard currency back in that day. Also, soft currency, chewy currency and sherbet-flavoured currency. But if we liked a particular song, we had to either buy – Read More-
Yesterday’s match between Liverpool and Arsenal really did ‘have it all’. It had football, not a big surprise, it had goals, it had Arsenal disappointment, and we all love that, it had on-field violence, and best of all, quite uniquely, it had off-field violence between a referee and a player. Oh, you think, that happens – Read More-