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Thursday, 31 May 2012

Let’s hear it for Mr Clarke who came into my life rather late in the day, but what the fuck

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Those geeks who advocate all things binary were onto a thing or two, though they will be appalled to hear - as though they didn’t already kn...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Let’s look on the gloomy side for a change: the idiots now have the upper hand, we can expect no more change out of China, and Syria is going to explode. So what can we do? Raise a glass to the Irish and get them to tell us a few jokes as we all go down in flames. And when will bloody Google get off our backs?

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One of the reasons I took a break from writing this blog was that more and more I was writing about the same issue - the euro crisis and how...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

The lunacy of newspapers – Pt 4,337 of an occasional series

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This is not, admittedly, the worst example its kind, and one or two jugheads around the world might even ask themselves what the hell is he...
Sunday, 20 May 2012

I’m back and still predicting doom, gloom and misery. And a short break in Spain was very welcome

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After something of a hiatus, I'm back. Just as many opinions and just as much bullshit will be on offer, but I should tell you that one ...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Blame who you want, but don’t blame the Vietnam War on the vets. (And the bookies win again)

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Thirty years ago, Britain achieved a remarkable victory over Argentina when it successfully deployed ships and troops to the Falkland Island...
Monday, 26 March 2012

The New Yorker reluctantly makes it official: the Daily Mail is not quite as evil as North London claims. Damn!

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When I thought of writing this piece about a profile of the Daily Mail which has just appeared in The New Yorker , the phrase ‘the man you l...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

A naive twat writes: why can’t there be more political consensus? And something ugly might be stirring in China, though exactly what is anyone’s guess

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A few years ago, I did something which to many of my friends seemed quite inexplicable and which even I must admit was out of character. But...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

How one of Britains's most noble redtops/prominent gutter newspapers (delete as appropriate) is slowly going to the dogs at the hands of one Sly Bailey

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In the whacky world of newspapers which I inhabit and which I trust I shall be able to inhabit for the next two years and eight months (of w...
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

We all had a youth and mine was The Kinks. But even they can do nothing for the PIGS, and the Baader-Meinhof gang throw up a disturbing fact (if it’s true)

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We all had our fave bands when we were still in our salad days and life was a roller-coaster ride which seemed beautiful and perfect one min...
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Friday, 2 March 2012

Why for this old fart tweet is still rather uncomfortably close to twit. But don’t worry, you young things, I know my place

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For many years after Twitter came into being, I simply could not see the point of it. Tweeters, I thought, were simply irritating neophiles ...