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IDS…It’s a Fugging Classic Mick!
When I was seventeen, I worked as a 'Chain Boy' which, before you ask, was the name for a structural engineers assistant rather than slang for a youth who went to parties hosted by BBC children's presenters and MP's. I didn't drive back then, so one of the lads (Mick) I worked with, used to get his dad to pick us up and drive us all back from Aldermaston to Baughurst and Tadley. On one damp and cold winters evening as we waited for our ...
Frankie Boyle at the Anvil
I went to see shock comedian, Frankie Boyle, perform at the Anvil in Basingstoke last night as part of his tour of Britain's provincial towns. I have long been a fan of Boyle's, particularly enjoying his ongoing tirade against elitism mixed with jaw dropping jokes on subjects we dare not talk or joke about, such as establishment child abuse, disability and cancer. Of course, this has cost him dearly and by expressing on Children in Need ...
Populist Theory Against Educated Wisdom!
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is people who find it within themselves to challenge or even ridicule those who are better qualified than them in their chosen profession. My job is easy, but I guess it feels that way because I have been doing it twenty years, so it is a bit like riding a bike. However, there are still times when people seem to think they can run it better than me, despite having no experience. Business banking ...
A Trip to Eype, West Dorset
This weekend, after getting a good freezing on the first weekend of cricket groundwork, we decided to disappear down to Dorset without any children, or indeed my faithful dog. Once again demonstrating my tendency to be a total maverick with no sense of where boundaries lie, I booked up the Eype Mouth Hotel near Bridport. I did this without even a glance at tripadvisor.co.uk, the website that allows would be travel critics the opportunity to ...
What Has the Eu Done For You?
One question I can't find an answer to through Google right now, is why the right-wing media in the UK as so fervently anti-Europe? Pitifully, 80% of the British media is owned by billionaires who do not pay any UK taxes, with the Barclay Brothers (Telegraph) The Rothermere's (The Mail) and Murdoch (The Sun, The Times and Sky) all living outside the UK. I am not sure where Richard Desmond (The Express, Asian Babes, Television X) lives, but ...