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Friday, 24 August 2012

South Wales Echo, Lincolnshire Chronicle, sex, life of Riley, expenses and spurious vocations and first-class bullshit - a short ramble down memory lane

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On June 24, I shall have served in Her Majesty’s Press for 40 years, assuming of course, that I don’t die earlier than I plan to or find mys...
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Sunday, 19 August 2012

Assagne ‘hounding’: it’s all about ‘freedom of speech’? Pull the other one

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Here’s a suggestion: go onto Google and search for ‘Bradley Manning’. Make a note of how many pages are thrown up. Then do a search for ‘Jul...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012

If I never hear of Julian Assange again will still be too soon, especially as young Bradley Manning is getting a far rougher deal. And Pussy Riot will get to know their fate today

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So that stupid little prick Julian Assange has managed to get himself in the headlines again. It’s a shame that Bradley Manning, the source ...
Monday, 13 August 2012

Olympics: a grumpy old sod sounds off . . .

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Well, it’s all over bar the shouting, as they say, and I’m sure many more backs will be slapped this week as Britain congratulates itself on...
Saturday, 4 August 2012

I do so hope that Draghi, Monti, Merkel, Samaras, Rajoy and the rest of that sorry bunch realise whose future they are dicking with: I take these things personally. And I’m a Scorpio. Then there’s a new kid on the block, one Alexander Bastrykin: hello, Alex, and what to you to for a living?

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I have a 13-year-old son and in many ways he seems to take after me. I was rather facetious as a lad, and so is he. Naturally, he is, to use...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Greatest film ever made? Not quite. But Mr Vidal must surely come close to top of a list of wits

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The great and good of the film world have spoken and now we know: after a survey of 800 odd of those great and good, their bible Sight &...
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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Who's wearing the White Hats in Syria? (Or why the West’s attitudes towards the toppling of Assad and his regime remind me just a little too much of the Cisco Kid and Hopalong Cassidy). And just how soppy can a grown man get?

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When I was a kid and regularly watched the 30-minute Westerns which were screened every weekday for us young ones – Rin Tin Tin, Hopalong Ca...
Sunday, 29 July 2012

Official: Vladimir Putin doesn't like punk songs. And there was MS, a sweet, sweet girl who I was too stupid to appreciate. And in some obscure way Evelyn Waugh lives!

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Pussy Riot are a Russian feminist punk band. So far, so unimaginative. On a scale of 0 to 10 of original names, Punk Riot don’t even registe...
Friday, 27 July 2012

Are we (were we) in for another bout of expensive Olympic kitsch? I rather think we are (were). And Apple shareholders are disappointed with record profit. Corrupt fuckers, I say. And - sorry - but another teensy bit about the bloody euro: just how patient are the Germans? Finally, I discover Thin Lizzy (about 60 years too late)

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Now that I seem to have got back into my stride writing this blog after a rather embarrassed few weeks when I gave it a rest until a felt ab...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

In which I make a confession, hang my head in shame and pray my wife doesn't discover my appalling acts

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This entry is only to be read on the strict understanding that my wife is not informed of its contents. I shall not, however, be detailing s...
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