I’ve read that the original story in early editions of The Sun said (allegedly, natch…) ‘Bonkers Bruno locked up’ but after complaints from mental health support groups changed it to ‘Sad Bruno in mental home’. The[…]

I have the impression that hip hop with a positive message is frowned on in this region of the blogosphere. I can’t easily point to any examples, so maybe that’s a straw man. Relentless positivity can be very dull, certainly, acting as a […]

BrunoWatch Continues: the Evening Standard‘s headline today is “TEN POLICEMEN RESTRAIN SAD BRUNO”. Now, come on lads, “sad” wasn’t actually the word you were looking for, was it? But of course it was – two da[…]

THE BUZZ[…]

Perhaps it’s too tempting to compare The Crouches with Second Generation. After all, they only have anything in common from a single (white) perspective which assumes that all attempts to represent non-white sides of British life must somehow b[…]

The British Film Industry (aka Richard Curtis) has been doing pretty well by knocking out “Hugh Grant vs a Pretty American” films for ten years now. The new one, Love Actually, looks a bit different, partly due to the decision to do witho[…]

JAMIESON – Complete
Slow on the uptake as ever, this song only really grabbed me when I heard it being played in Next. Is there something about retail outlet sound-systems that makes great pop stand out? The acoustics? The relief from the horro[…]

Playground Songs: Poetry is of course an essential part of the Brown Wedge and you don’t get much more poetic than this:
Daisy Daisy
Give me your tits to chew
I’m half crazy
My bollocks are turning blue
I can’t afford a johnny
A pla[…]

It seems slightly ironic that the first day I pitch up in my new place of employment as an Educator (of sorts), I should also be going back to school myself in the evening. Having commuted back early from Glasgow to be able to attend, I am now offici[…]

I rarely eat supermarket sandwiches, Uxbridge has a couple of very good sandwich shops in Scoffs and Pumpernickels who will custom build you the sandwich of your choice. However today I went into Marks’ in search of a change and found there sm[…]