ESCAPE FROM RUBBISH ISLAND!!!
People often ask me what the most frustrating thing about my tireless campaign against music is. My answer, as I stick my boot in another jukebox, is comebacks. There is nothing more annoying than seeing a band that you […]

AVENGERS DAY: All my DYS comments today will in some way refer to the shoddy Avengers film starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.
1: The Stepford Wives
I have not seen a film so butchered in editing as The Stepford Wives since probably The Avengers.[…]

“Fancy popping round for a quick parsnip?” For some reason, these ads have sprung up on the side of buses. An ad for coffee. Not an ad, you will notice, for any particular coffee. Nescafe is no long attacking us with Trinny and Susannah t[…]

Extended online letters pages rool OK
The Observer featured my letter on penalties in their sports letters pages this weekend. Not in the print version, but it’s a start.[…]

What A Palaver!
I’m going to stay out of debates about pop for a while, I think, because
– I don’t feel intellectually sharp enough at the moment
– (more importantly) I end up unintentionally upsetting or offending people I re[…]