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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

RIP my brother Ian (1948-2014)

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I can’t start an entry without reporting the most serious news since I last blogged: my older brother has died. I say it is serious news not...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Zero Dark Thirty’s Maya: in real life she is apparently an Alfreda Frances Bikowsky

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If anyone has seen that complete farce of a film Zero Dark Thirty in which a tenacious female CIA analyst more or less works out singlehande...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

What name do we use to describe hypocritical f***s like Uncle Sam and good old Johnny Bull who don’t torture, but do? And why are they so suprised when it becomes obvious many, many people in large parts of the world hate them?

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Just finished watching Ridley Scott’s Body Of Lies. A week or two ago I watched Green Zone and In The Valley Of Elah. All three, in slightly...
Saturday, 13 December 2014

I’m back and so is The French Stud

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I’ve not written here for several weeks, and I’ve been wondering why. I know it has something to do with reaching a certain age at my last b...
Tuesday, 18 November 2014

And finally the big one . . . PLUS proof that the Daily Mail still hasn’t lost the plot

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Well, I’m rapidly approaching that milestone in everyone’s life which surely is the biggest of the big ones: 65, the age or retirement (at l...
Monday, 10 November 2014

As Goebbels said: If you tell a lie, tell a big one. Blair and Bush agree. Eleven years on and more than 200,000 folk dead, they got away with it. Why did they do it?

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Over the past few days I watched two films which reminded me once more of the second Iraq War and how Blair and Bush got away – I suppose qu...
Thursday, 30 October 2014

Now here’s a surprise — the Daily Mail comes clean and admits: We print complete shite bollocks crap nonsense! Or in the paper’s own words: We are WRONG about everything. And I have successfully culled my burgeoning population of iPhones and partially redeemed my reputation for being at least a little bit sane

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I’m always prepared to be surprised and am still looking forward to that jaw-dropping moment when bankers throughout the Western world agree...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014

How to become the owner of four iPhones you don’t want: it’s not that hard, believe it or not, and a lot easier if you are – like me – an idiot. And talking of idiots: Manchester United. What is going on?

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I’ve never claimed to be the sharpest blade in the box (although if someone else were to do me the honour of making the claim, I would be fl...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Heard of Grant Green? No, nor had I until I heard him play. And in case you haven’t yet come across them: Boardwalk Empire and Ray Donovan, the best since The Sopranos

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This is where I come clean: I am a bullshitter. There, I’ve said it, though it’s not perhaps as you imagined it to be. To be honest, I’m not...
Friday, 10 October 2014

I introduce you to a ‘Journalist’ - not quite what you think. And Ukip has 15 minutes of fame - every dog, as they say, has its day

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The other day a colleague - no names, no pack drill, but he is the author of various travel guides to several eccentric cities around Britai...