MUST WE THROW THIS BOGEY FIRTH* AT OUR YOUNG KIDS
Yes, being the quite obvious answer. Tory MP gets knickers in twist re: Dick and Dom. Though I like the idea of Tessa Jowell playing Drop Your Guts…
*TYPO UPDATE: This should, of course, be filt[…]

Day 6: Metal Box
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

Crisis has just hit. I was in rather high spirits last night, after Crispian had discovered exactly why tomcats make “THAT” noise, and was supping a comforting single in my bunk. I had […]

TESCO’S WILL EAT ITSELF: I was just in the Goodge Street Tesco’s buying myself some prunes. Above the queue for the express checkouts is a television which is permatuned to Sky News. And it was showing a story about…Tesco’s so[…]

MODAID 20!
It was a bad idea in 1985, it is a bad idea now.
Sorry, churlishness there. Obviously a wonderful initiaitve and all (though I guess in 1985 they might have done a better deed by raising a little bit of money for Stevie Marriott). I do wo[…]

SALADS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU DESPITE THE HEADLINE WOT SEZ THEY ARE NOT
More idiot food science. Salads in some restaurants have quite a high calorie count. NO SHIT! Creamy sauce, croutons, cheese, bacon – a sprinkling of rocket and tomatoes do […]

National Treasure
I’d been wanting to see this since I saw the Trailer about 8 months back. Bad reviews had made me worried, but not so much; I thought I’d watch 2 hours of reasonably good rubbish. I was wrong. I loved it. It was BRILLIAN[…]

Thomas Gravesen at Real Madrid
Obviously all we amateur pundits instantly agreed that Gravesen was just the kind of player that Real needed, someone to work and win ball and stop the other team in the middle of the park, someone to do the kind of job[…]

NOT MY THEORY
Thinkin’pon Eastwood the brain quickly jumps to Woody Allen. Seventies, actor/star cum director/star. How often does Woody die in his films?
Well Love & Death (obv). But again like Eastwood, in the later films death is not an[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
96. Belle And Sebastian – “Sleep The Clock Around”
Dave Boyle says:
I wasn’t one of the participants in drawing up this list, so if you don’t like this song’s presence in it, i) don’t bla[…]

Day 5: North Atlantic Drift
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

After the first days stormy sea, today we seem caught almost in the doldrums (except I know where the doldrums are). Captain Jack, a surprisingly young sea dog who has the most appalling[…]