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The Turgid and Miserable State of English Sport!
What is it with English team sport and its miserable, turgid, statistical obsession that leaves it lying in a pile of data sheets as the rest of the world enjoys major sporting events like the festival of entertainment they are supposed to be? For years, we have witnessed English football teams scrambling their way into major tournaments only to turn up with ...
Pass the Dutchie on the Left Hand Side
When I occasionally drop Harry into college during the week, we make a compromise between Radio 4 (me) and Heart FM (him) and listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2. At just after 8:30 he (Chris Evans) does a thing where he plays an old song, followed by another and you are invited to have a guess as to whether the release of the latter song is a higher or lower ...
Meet the Ukippers
One of the funniest, yet darkest things I have seen on TV for a while was the BBC 2 Documentary, ‘Meet the Ukippers’. Unlike the dreadful Channel 4 Mockumentary ‘Ukip: the First 100 Days’ (a sensationalist load of old drivel attempting to create what it would be like, with Nigel Farage in Number 10), this programme crew actually went and mixed with the ...
What Does Normal Mean?
I went in to the Co-Op this morning to pick up a bottle of milk, when out of nowhere a lady at the back of the store caught my attention. “Ooh I’ve got a present for you” she said. Feeling rather perplexed, I followed her to the counter where she ducked under the shelving and emerged with a bag containing a packet of four toilet rolls and a tube of ...
Forgetting Churchill to Concentrate on Miller
Firstly, thank you to everyone who offered so much positive comments via Facebook, Twitter and email regarding my most recent post about the shocking increase in male suicide rates. It is probably the most response I have had to a blog in the eight years I have been writing them. It has also gained me more readership after I suffered a dent in my confidence last ...