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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

The incredible story of how the euro crisis was foretold in code in the Old Testament or the runes or by aliens or something like that (I haven’t quite understood the details). But whatever – man, it’s frightening what they are doing! Horrific!

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All else being equal, I am far more of a cock-up theorist than a conspiracy theorist. For one thing, you are less likely to be written off a...
Saturday, 23 June 2012

One for all gays, homosexuals, dykes, queers, lesbians, same-sexers, friends of Dorothy and assorted hangers-on: can I come to the wedding and can I choose the outfits? Oh, and being the kind of cynical cunt who likes attention, I give The Kinks another mention. Then there’s a short piece at the end on how easy it is to lose money if you start mixing it with bookies

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One of the issues which is - apparently, although I have yet to see any evidence to prove the claim - ripping Britain apart is the subject o...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012

A corner of the Med which might well become forever Russia. And I finally begin the saga of how I didn’t become the world’s greatest lover: meet my first, WR

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Doing nothing in particular tonight except sitting in the smoking area of The Scarsdale in Kensington, drinking a pint of overpriced cider (...
Saturday, 16 June 2012

Here's an irony: I know even less than you probably do

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And the agonising goes on. And on. And on. We're in the shit, Europe is in the shit, the US is in the shit and, with a bit of bad luck, ...
Friday, 15 June 2012

Cigars, girlfriends, starving Greeks, hacks and whatever else floats our boat

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Just how often can you write that 'things are going from bad to worse' without losing bags of credibility or, worse, your audience? ...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

Dave Fiuczynski: a fan writes

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Years ago - I suppose I should now write many years ago - a curious device arrived called the ‘MP3 player’. I’m not exactly a technical bozo...
Friday, 8 June 2012

‘Germany abandons euro and re-introduces DM’ - that, I think, is a headline we will read at some point in the next two months. And Euro 2012 kicks off with my bets already going awry

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For what it’s worth, my guess in the whole Germany v Everyone else in the euro crisis will be that Germany blinks first, but they won’t do w...
Friday, 1 June 2012

The question we are all asking ourselves: will it rain? And several Royal facts the papers won’t tell you

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It can surely not have escaped the attention of the rest of the world that our glorious, glorious Queen Elizabeth is this weekend celebratin...
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This isn’t pleasant viewing (especially if you aren’t white)

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I can’t deny that I’m not excited by the prospect of three weeks of wall-to-wall football coming up when Euro 2012 kicks off on June 8 in Po...
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...