Archive For The “Life” Category
I’ve put off writing this post in the aftermath of the rioting, partly because I’m keenly aware that ranting about politics is not what this blog was originally set up to do, partly because I suspected in my cynical and road weary fashion that we’d get a bunch of soundbytes from Prime Minister Cameron asserting [...]
The view from Holloway is probably quite different to that from Chipping Norton, the tory stronghold where the likes of Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson hobnob with hapless Prime Minister David Cameron. Yet it is the view from Holloway with which Ms.Brooks may become most familiar. The Phone Hacking scandal is shaping up nicely. If [...]
Is the phone hacking scandal David Cameron’s personal Watergate? We appear to have all the ingredients necessary to topple an unelected government for whom cynicism and self interest appear to be the only identifiable characteristics. So why is the press tip toeing around this story like cattle avoiding an abattoir? For those who haven’t been [...]
Bastard, bloody rain b*****s Brighton bike ride. The Naked Bike Ride is one of Brighton’s most eccentric spectacles, and today I had hoped to rattle off an impressive collection of outstanding natural….photographs. Imagine if you will, the bemused expressions of the daytrippers as, out of nowhere, a cavalcade of body painted, butt naked enthusiasts hurtle [...]
File under ‘complicated’, but news of the allied coalition launching 110 Tomahawk missiles at Libya does not fill me with waves of patriotic pride. Quite the opposite in fact. I’m dismayed that David Cameron has embraced this opportunity to generate more political capital with an alacrity matched only by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy behaving [...]
Doctor, my sides are splitting! This is reality tv as you’ve never seen it before, baroque, brightonesque and utterly bonkers. The cakes are magnificent and the characters are extraordinary – especially Christine the creative director and Dave, the head chocolatier. Add to the mix supercool cook Jim and “ambitious assistant” Tom, stir, stand back and [...]
I’m sure Leona Lewis is a very pleasant person, with a quite startling vocal range and an excellent stylist. However the news that Metro readers consider her to be the most influential woman in London is an indictment both of that particular publication and of its celebrity obsessed readers. In case anyone missed it, we [...]
“On the very day that the chancellor raised another £800m in tax from bankers – having already introduced the toughest rules on bankers’ pay anywhere in the developed world – it beggars belief that anyone could claim that donors to the Conservative Party are influencing policy…” – A Conservative Party Spokesman. Cobblers. No, actually a [...]
Andrew Neil’s polemic about the influence of the public school system on english politics and the evaporation of the meritocracy ushered in by the likes of Harold Wilson on the left and Margaret Thatcher on the right offered up some truly staggering statistics. Try this one for size – 75% of the coalition cabinet are [...]
I wonder sometimes if there are any limits to the Tory leadership’s contempt for the people of this country. It appears not, as a cursory examination of the background of Baron Browne of Madingly, the peer entrusted with the responsibility of achieving a sustainable future for higher education all to readily reveals. The ‘official’ version [...]
