Since I was 13 years old, I’ve spent each season obsessed by the trials and tribulations of Barnet football club. So says Adam Blenford on the BBC website and so I could say. Except it would not be true. Admittedly I started supporting them wh[…]

Just because we forgot to blog it last week. Three days after discovering the pie heaven that was the Pillars Of Hercules, we returned to find: all the pies were gone. We wondered if Wiley had popped into the PoH so altered was the pie situation. So […]

Dave’s evocative piece of party activism, reminds me of my own stint as a party activist. I joined the Labour Party when I was 18 (really cheap youth rates) and had been mailshat before the 1992 election so see if I wanted to volunteer. I had j[…]

I was doing a piece on the 2001 election in a similar vein to the one I did on 1992, which has turned from a post into an essay.
* Probably John Major’s best set-piece gag, when he said to Neil Kinnock “‘He draweth out the thread of[…]

Two films I saw on Saturday both full of the hell of anticipation. Both dripped with potential tragedy, pre-dripped if you will by their trailers. One worked, one didn’t. The films? The Assassination Of Richard Nixon and Bullet Boy.
TAORN has o[…]

The 2001 Election by Dave Boyle
I was on pins for the 2001 election. For most of the country, it seemed a foregone conclusion, but the marginal I was working in, we didn’t have a clue. We knew that ultimately, the ability to form a government w[…]

A Media Guardian article about slavery in the media industry. I could have written this articlae ten years ago, which was also exactly when I no longer worked in telly. Since I worked on a proto-reality show, a format which couples long hours with ex[…]

It appears that after the election a new crime of postal electoral fraud will come on the statute book. It is incredible that at the moment it is not illegal to apply for a vote in someone else’s name. It is only vaguely illegal (and in reality[…]

The continued operation of Jennings’ brewery in Cockermouth would be key, they say [blogged because i am a big fan of some of those wonderful Jennings ales, such as the Cumberland].
what does it mean, oh anyone who knows the games the big boys […]

Don’t have the actual letter to quote, but the main idea ensconced in said letter has burnt its way into my brain. So I paraphrase, and cannot attribute (comment section might be helpful)
“I appreciate the sense of companies trying to red[…]