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Friday, 25 January 2013

How to lose money quite quickly: an easy-to-follow guide involving cheap Chinese tablets, Hong Kong-based crooks, Chinistore and Paypal

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Those loyal readers visiting this blog whose sole thought every morning is to log in and see what else has been happening in my life might b...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

Exactly how bad is Quentin Tarantino? Well, pretty bad - in fact, even worse than that, but as long as he rakes in the dollars, Hollywood ain't going to tell him: kill the golden goose? Come one. And don’t accept Tarantino’s version of slavery. Try Howard Zinn’s account instead

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Every industry and art form needs its new blood, whether it is a fresh way of cooking the books in accountancy, dreaming up new scams in ban...
Monday, 31 December 2012

Salmond and Farage: unlikely kissing cousins but they have a lot in common

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A question, although only those of you in the UK should bother trying to answer. Those of you dipping into this ’ere blog who live abroad ar...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

The Deadwood stage stops here: why after David’s Milch’s Deadwood we should never put up with anything but the very best. (Oh, and hats off to casting directors the world over)

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Let me start on a very obscure note. Some people, surely a small minority, stay behind a little when a film has finished and the credits rol...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012

What would Christmas be without a heartfelt plea? So here's mine: think of those who aren't as lucky as yourselves

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Let me be frank: I like Christmas, though I must add that without children (which, for me is any young person up to and including the age of...
Friday, 14 December 2012

A gadget queen writes: Not so smart with phones and as a capitalist something of a bloody loser

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Not posted here for a week or three, but encouraged by a glass or five of brandy and lovage on ice (my new drink, beats the shit out of scru...
Saturday, 24 November 2012

A father writes (though not this one), and parents the world over might understand

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It is by no means the world-stopping story of the month and most certainly few people living outside Britain will have heard about it and ev...
Saturday, 10 November 2012

Let’s hear it for the Fourth Estate or why Kim, Kourtney, Jen, Em and Jess are keeping democracy alive. Then there’s the rekindling of a love affair: me and Don

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Here are some spiffing items of news you might well have missed over these past few days. But be reassured that throughout the Western world...
Saturday, 27 October 2012

Four pieces of music you might enjoy (and absolutey nothing about the bloody euro, the EU or anything of that ilk)

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It’s odd when you hear a piece of music and, although you have never heard it before, you seem to know it, it seems to be far more familiar ...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

In which, for no very good reason I can make out, I go to bed without supper...

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Well, an interesting 24 hours which at the point of writing - 8.45pm - is soon to culminate with me going to bed with no supper. Not that I ...