What we gonna do about refugees? Illegals?? Boat-people who risk their lives to arrive in Dover but really would much prefer to be in Kensington? Who have taken a dice with death to get away from… well, that’s a good question. But its ok, Suella Braverman and little Rishi have come up with a 3 – Read More-
I went to Watford the other night. Because I just ‘neeeeded’ culture and Watford’s the obvious place to find it. Innit? Well it was on Saturday night for a new production of… Merchant of Venice! So they shipped Shylock over from Venice to… Cable Street, London E1. And during the move he left 17th Century – Read More-
Having failed miserably to unravel the financial situation at Manchester City, trying to work out which of ‘Abu Dhabi Investments’, ‘the investment company of Abu Dhabi’, Dhabi Abu Investments Inc.’ and ‘nothing to do with Abu Dhabi investments for the purposes of football accounting, plc’, are anything to do with each other, we now have – Read More-
Mel always comments when, in a cabinet ‘reshuffle’, the minister for ‘diversity’ becomes the minister for education. But he/she knows NOTHING about that!!!, my wife cries. Then a week later he/she is the chancellor. Or minister for obesity and motor cars. And its true, they know precisely fuck all about their new specialist subject. And – Read More-
So yesterday, in a quiet moment at work, I was in discussion with ‘the film buff’ and the talk meandered round to Dustin Hoffman, as these things do. From my (rare) theatre visit to see him as Shylock in about nineteen eighty-something; the Merchant of Brooklyn. Accent didn’t really work. Little old Venetian Jew sounding – Read More-
The prospect of a government-appointed ‘regulator’ for our Premier football league has caused concerns at FIFA. The proposal to have a body which SHOULD control how the teams and their owners ‘behave’, both financially and responsibly, whilst not joining new ‘superleagues’ and checking on the suitability of proposed club owners, may contravene FIFA’s article 15 – Read More-
These are the 10 important things to remember about Chelsea: 1. I fucking hate them 2. I hate them more 3. They’re shit 4. I hate them 5. They’re violent and nasty 6. They can’t even get sent off properly 7. I hate them 8. Their manager needs to make the transition from ‘bemused’ to – Read More-
The leadership battle hots up, ‘up there’ in what is currently the northernmost extremity of Great Britain, though if they get their way, that title goes to Carlisle. Possibly Newcastle, need to get a map. First we had ‘Katie-gate’, in which Kate Forbes was brutally exposed as… A CHRISITIAN!!! The worst thing you could ever – Read More-
Its the anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Sorry, the ‘special military action, NOT WAR’, war in Ukraine. Depending on which side of the Donbas you sit. Or really, which side of Putin’s mind you sit. Because if you’re inside it (and good luck with that, holy shit!!!), you’re defending your country from the hostile – Read More-
Nicola Sturgeon is ‘istry’. Gone. In all but she’s still hanging around making a nuisance of herself in that ‘dead man walking’ kind’a way. Or perhaps ‘suicidal woman walking’ as she actually quit herself. And the leadership race is hotting up. In a rather tepid, low-key, never-eard-a-none-of-em sort of ‘hotting up’. Favourite at the moment – Read More-