Herself* – the Head Buck Cat, QE2 – is the only thing keeping this leaky boat afloat. When the Queen expires, the rest should shamefacedly pack their tents and get the fuck outta Dodge.

*It’s only the women in […]

Note to an unnamed pre-retirement council worker: your prudent habits of packing your own lunch in a bread wrapper and putting aside a significant tranche of your income into an investment product you describe as […]

Shot By Both Sides #3? Just by Radiohead.

@Bamber: was at that Aztec Camera show myself. First time I’d heard that cover of Jump. Was Roddy in jodphurs at the time? The gag then was whatever Roddy wore, Nick Heyward would bite and show up in the same […]

That Sara Gazarek record is still getting daily spins – albeit on Deezer Hi-Fi – chez moi.

@MikeH: there was a terrific, mainly female septet – Nerija? – on Later last week who didn’t hesitate to namecheck Tomorrow’s Warriors as a guiding force. The London scene is buggin’ out and a return visit to […]

@John: I honestly don’t know – could it be that Big Bukes is still wary of the plucky startup Amazon? I suspect the publishers love the prospect of a double dip – my hope that the authors are compensated […]

Britain – in this Irishman’s opinion – is already great. The few remaining KKK sad sacks would keel over if they knew the amount of Papists, Jews and ‘coloured folk’ that Johnson had in his cabinet.

Peaky Blinders has an unerring ability – best illustrated in the 4th series – to stretch 30 minutes of plot over 6 hours. It’s a special ed version of Boardwalk Empire with more guns and more tits. A generally […]

I’m old – or cynical – enough to remember when global warming sceptic was the preferred term. Denier has the whiff of dogmatism to it.

Clare Fox certainly blotted her copy book with that Warrington nonsense.

@illuminatus: I bought Heat pretty much every week in 1999/2000. It struck me as an attempt to splice the broad pop culture of the imperious Entertainment Weekly*, with a little of the snark of Smash Hits and the […]

The fledgling state of Israel may have ‘turfed out’ quite a few but many others flew the coop after being on the losing side in the first Arab/Israeli war – they wrongly assumed a pan-Arabist slaughter of the Jews […]

If what you say is true, I can’t quite grasp how opposing the right of Jews to establish and protect a homeland of their own – the historical definition of Zionism that applies to the chosen and the gentile alike […]

@BlueBoy: The centre – which is exactly where I want to be, if just a smidge to the right – is under siege. No question about it, I dread this out-turn in current events. At the same time, my initial impression […]

@David: to be a little mischievous here, is Labour well on the way to becoming a Soviet-era throwback? The Politburo brooked no dissent, either.

Not a view, really, it’s more a personal preference that helps me illuminate both terms to my own satisfaction.

The Labour leader’s needed to create that distance for years. Judging by the calibre of some candidates, he may be finding it a struggle. (Edited: I asserted in an earlier version of this post that Corbyn was […]

@Slug: I’ve given up completely on the euphemistic ‘anti-Semitic’ and prefer ‘Jew hatred’ because that’s what it always boils down to. Same goes for ‘anti-Zionist’ which is used by your more upscale Jew hater.

@NigelT: 1973 is superb. Blunty is a mensch.

@chiz: I remember seeing footage of a Tory candidate in the last election canvassing a voter and mentioning some of the Labour leader’s less desirable associations. The lady’s reply in essence was that those […]