Monthly Archives: February 2023

If the Northern Lights can be seen in Southern Britain are they still allowed to be called the Northern Lights? I guess the name still counts as they haven’t sodded off to the southerly hemisphere of the planet, not yet … Continue reading →

John ‘Motty’ Motson has died. If you’re not a football fan you might still know who he was: most obituaries have framed the television and radio commentator in various terms as ‘the voice of football’. He was the commentator for … Continue reading →

Is it really better to burn out than fade away? Kurt Cobain allegedly thought so unless that’s what Big Yoko wants us to believe. Big Yoko is possibly/probably/not at all behind the apparent accidental or self-inflicted deaths of so many … Continue reading →

In this world where we live there should be more happiness, so we were told in song format during the seventies by Morecambe and Wise. Let’s all do their funny little skipping dance with the arm movements and remember simpler … Continue reading →

Forget the BAFTAs, who won at the BIFTAs, the British Institute of Fugheads Tokers and ‘Ash-heads? Loads of people, man, but they were like too out of it to notice. Which is fine cos the organisers were too out of … Continue reading →

There once wasn’t an ugly duckling. Because of Scritti Politti gone mad. Unless the Scrittis are only changing some of the language in Ronald Dali’s stories and will leave Handsome Crisp-Bag Andover’s stories alone because Copenhagen is wonderful, wonderful? Aren’t … Continue reading →

Many plenty of lots of years ago, before the world ran out of stones and we had to leave The Stone Age behind and invent bronze, there were no people called Tim. Not a single one, not even in the … Continue reading →

Despite having a Scottishy name and excellent eyebrows I will not be standing as a possible replacement for outgoing Scottish National Party leader and First Minister, Nicola Fishname. The main reason for this is that I’m not even a member … Continue reading →