There was a magazine (an actual proper magazine!) I loved back in the dim distant, aimed at high voiced 12 year olds as I then was. ‘Speed and Power’. What a superb name. I can’t remember if it was weekly or mo […]

There seems to one available for about £3.50 on Amazon

That’s the man! God, yes! Thank you @Jaygee

Ooh! One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich. If you like that I implore all of you too seek out a long out of print second hand copy of ‘Dolgun’ It’s the entirely gripping and true story of one Alexa […]

That makes much more sense

Dudley D Watkins

It was ‘The Victor’ for me. Alf Tupper, the Tough Of The Track. As a little fatty I think I was drawn to the wiry working class mechanic training only on fish and chips. He also seemed to be late for every sta […]

Some pub quiz tastic Patrick Hamilton triv. Which everyone here will know. Anyway… He wrote the play/movie ‘Gaslight’ in which the baddie convinces the nice lass she’s done loads wrong. Hence the term ‘g […]

Another vote here for John Williams’ ‘Butchers Crossing’ And one for ‘Uncommon Danger’ by Eric Ambler. Read ‘Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky’. A three novel anthology by Patrick Hamilton. Al […]

Bernard Lee and Wilfrid Hyde White stole that movie with just one of their lines apiece. ‘Goodness, how awkward’ ‘Sounds anti-British, sir’

Not that unlikely, I feel. I recall when all the metal bands recording and touring during the early 80’s were revolving doors. The likes of Neil Murray, Bob Daisely, Cozy Powell, Don Airey, Ian Paice etc w […]

I had one of those! I also had a potato.

Jeez, yes. I remember I used to love those Action Transfers. This is the first time I’ve thought of them in well over 40 years. I have memories of comics at that time having some fantastic giveaways. F […]

Our local arts centre is a regular venue for comedians trying out new material, pre national tours. We have Omid Djalili, Ed Byrne and Harry Hill lined up over the next few months. £20 a go for a seat in […]

I remember watching it when first broadcast and was too genuinely taken aback at seeing Mark Knopfler and Lemmy being amusing to do a lol. It is very funny though. Look at them all behind the witness stand […]

I’m so sorry to hear about this. You don’t deserve all this. My wife and I are contemplating upping sticks from the South East up to the North East, from our odd and tiny 3 bedroom semi to a big 2 bedroom fla […]

Oh! That’s very good news. I get what you mean about the old guard, but I do think they were inhabiting characters more than anything. My wife loves JAM. We bought a few on cassette tape featuring the o […]

Well. That wasn’t shit. She looked assured, together and in command. No real zingers but a constant pounding of reason at him. She called him a disgrace. Out loud to his face. She reminded the a […]

That would lovely to see. She could troll him, using his own vocabulary. The results of her presidential policy could be ‘the greatest this country has ever seen. No one has seen this before’. She cou […]

I think both of them will disappoint everyone, or certainly their supporters. I think Harris will not land any killing prosecutorial blow. Like the current American justice system itself with regard to Trump. […]