I’ve enjoyed the tournament.

I don’t think the issue is VAR, it’s the applications of laws.
Some of the handball decisions have been ridiculous – clearly ball to hand, but because the hand was outside the […]

Stone’s biography of E H Carr(cited) in the LRB was a really nasty hatchet job; at least the LRB printed all the rebuttals.

You can gauge people by the company they keep. Andrew Roberts, cementing his position […]

It will be a long time until Iraq gets forgiven, and principally for two reasons:
1. The lack of integrity of the process getting us there.
2. The fact that it was rushed and the troops ill-equipped. THAT fact, […]

That isn’t safe maths.

Johnson should, in theory, have picked up 40 votes from the first round. He picked up 12. 28 went astray somewhere. It may come down to a “do I back my guy, or do I back the guy that […]

Because he delegated that to Comrade Milne, who has form with it

It’s a grower, not a shower.

I’m on my third listen and I feel…mixed. Some of the lyrics are frankly banal, and delivered badly (yes, Hitch hikin’, you.)

Some of it is very good, and up there with his […]

Everclear:

Squirrel is really good in chilli.

I traveled 90 minutes to give career advice to a friend of a friend I’ve never met before.

Then I watched the Women’s World Cup. Cooked dinner for us. Lounged outside reading.

Drink has been a nice Empress […]

Is it Boris? Boris Johnson?

It is?

*bang*

Musically:
Scott Hutchison.
Joe Strummer
Nick Drake.

This will apply to the losers:

The man who, allegedly, tried to use a vacuum to clear a turd that was blocking the lavvie.

I worked in the office block featured in the shooting of President Bartlet.

You win the thread

My Grandad was lucky on D-Day. CPO (Guns), so offshore shelling Germans.

He also did the Convoys. I take nothing away from the sacrifice of Overlord, and it deserves to be commemorated, but that entire war was […]

Top 3 is tough; I mean, how can I discount Bryan Adams on the ‘Into the Fire’ tour at Brighton? Or Mike Sanchez in Portsmouth? Or Runrig anywhere?

1. OMD, 9.30 Club. I put a “Nights Out” review up just after […]

Justin Currie, I think, at jammin’ Java, supported by The Mastersons.

Mastersons were great, which may have been part of the problem.

Obviously a lot of people were only there because of Del Amtri, and JC […]

Interesting review, but I’m not sure I agree with their point about women.

There is a ton of stuff he’s left out, and I’m going to guess that in a male-centered period, a lot of women didn’t make the cut. This […]

Whole of the Moon.

Great song. There are two people I would cheerfully murder and do time for when I hear it. Ex girlfriend who used me horribly and a scrote on my corridor.