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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Fuck it up: BMW shows you how. And talking of fuck ups (fucks up?), we still have no idea what is going on in Eastern Ukraine. What we do know is that the EU is getting pretty flabby about it all, now push is coming to shove. But then what do I know?

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The conventional, and probably correct, wisdom is that German car makers are good on the technology, but bloody useless at design. That migh...
Saturday, 30 August 2014

Ooh Vicar! Or how I learnt to love smut and realised early in my life that Donald McGill, Max Miller, Julian Clary, Humphrey Lyttelton and the rest are our true British heroes

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A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre. So the barman gave her one. If 1) You don’t understand what’s going on; or 2) Yo...
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Friday, 29 August 2014

My lad and his pride and joy

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A few months ago, I recorded that my son had asked for a dog for his birthday, and that I had put my foot down and firmly told him ‘no way’...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014

It’s all happening now: Vladimir Putin confesses he’s a Kate Bush fan, some of his soldiers lose their way, Boris and Nigel are still irrelevant, despite what they might like to think, and Rotherham police and social service demonstrate that at the end of the day they don’t give a flying fuck about much, really, least of all 1,400 children who complained of being raped

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Well, where does a lad start? In no particular order: Boris Johnson (aka Korky the Kat) and Nigel Farage both announce they will be standing...
Monday, 25 August 2014

I freeze my bollocks off and hope for warmer weather elsewhere in a few weeks, while Francois apparently hasn’t done the decent thing and it might not have been his decision anyway. As for that Vlad Putin: does he really have a plan?

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Given the continuing interest of some folk in the love lives of Francois Hollande and his most recent squeeze actress Julie Gayet, and the c...
Friday, 22 August 2014

Snaps, snaps, pictures, and snaps / just for a laugh, just for the craic

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When I was younger and still idealistic, I developed an interest in photography. It began with trying to take pictures with whatever crap ...
Monday, 18 August 2014

It’s not ‘what’ any more, but ‘how’

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I am one of those poor saps who is remarkably slow on the uptake. That’s an honest admission. But however slow on the uptake I am, I find it...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

Busy, busy, busy? And I bet you thought you had really achieved something this week. So why not sit down and reflect instead? And for the hell of it, a bonus musical track right at the end to help you get rid of all that activity (except, perhaps, the one sort we all know and love)

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Quite some time ago, and I don’t know why, I seemed to come to understand a certain and rather important distinction; it was the essential d...
Friday, 15 August 2014

Here’s one for you, Phil and Eric, in which I fess up and then some (though you’ll have to come back for Part II - The Confession if you want some real candour)

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This is by way of a letter to two friends I had many years ago at Dundee University, PW and EC. I shan’t give their full names, but they wil...
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Sunday, 10 August 2014

The bleak truth: summer here in Britain is over. It might drag on for a week or two but… Meanwhile, Hamas 1 - Israel 0, but what about the Isis psychos?

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I left work this evening and realised that today, August 11, summer here in Britain is already over. Although this is not at all unusual – i...