The Smoking Gone
First let me say this: I’m not really the sort of fellow who believes that we can or should look to The Market to do solve our social problems.
It looks like a smoking ban will be imposed in UK pubs before very long. Big Tony […]

Patrick who? For anyone who’s interested, it looks as though the Dwayne Lee transfer mini-saga we mentioned a while back is reaching its conclusion. Do I sense an unseemly note of glee in the Exeter Express and Echo’s coverage?
“A d[…]

Don’t fear the cheese
Tom’s right: London doesn’t have a dead centre preserved in amber and only useful for tourists. I think this is a good thing: that London’s ‘attractions’ are spread out and exist inside and al[…]

Grecian Earn Update
Regular readers will, I know, have been chewing away at their fingernails and wondering feverishly: “how are the Freaky Triglets getting on with their Grecian Earn?”
As you’ll see by our totaliser here, we’[…]

NYLPM in “cynical” claim!

According to today’s Guardian, the coincidence of “Dry Your Eyes” and Euro 2004 (as mentioned repeatedly round here) was “a fluke”. “I’d like to claim genius, that we sa[…]

On Do You See they’re having a pleasant little chat about childhood and film, as set off by Police Academy gaining a place in the world’s first scientifically-based Top 100 Films Ever ever.
Now I’m so little of a film buff that fi[…]

Cheat’s Culinary Compendium #3
“Sip your spirits and cure your cold, but I will take Port that will cure all things, even a bad character. For there was never a Port drinker who lacked friends to speak for him.”
Thackeray (quoted, u[…]

Talking about agents, as we were, here’s a story (at least here’s the story I can work out by reading behind the lines):
1. Newly-relegated cash-strapped club spots promising young player, playing semi-professionally in an even lower lea[…]

Product placement: via Kultureflash comes news of (yes) an art show (yes) with (guess what?) a DIFFERENCE.
Presumably to promote some new motor which they want to position as ‘edgy’ in some way, BMW are sponsoring a group show on the the[…]

The FT Appeal: THE GRECIAN EARN*
Regular readers of the Trigger will have noticed a certain bias in favour of Exeter City Football Club on here. Two of our regulars are badge-wearing, card-carrying Grecians, and several more have come along to City g[…]