One of these is likely to be a Star Wars noise, but I’m not a fan so I don’t know what the individual things are called. Is number 6 the sound of one of those X shaped fighter planes from the early films that made […]

If it’s a huge financial hit for Disney, which it doubtless will become, then I await the Get Back ride at Orlando with interest, complete with little animatronic scousers singing “Oh dirty Maggie Mae, they have […]

Much, much more excited by the film than by the re-release of the album.

If you substitute “filled truffles” for “Twirl”, “Spruengli” for “Tesco Express”, and “Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich” for “Station Road in Leytonstone” it makes it it easier to relate to for us hoi-polloi.

It’s a predictable and unadventurous England squad, but I suppose we have chopped and changed our top order so much recently in the search for a little consistency that it’s no real surprise. Pick the ones who […]

Pfff, amateurs.

This is the stuff for us real men: https://www.montezumas.co.uk/100-cocoa-chocolate-bar-absolute-black.html

Certainly not as unpalatable as you may think, it is like a rich cocoa bomb going […]

I live along the coast not that far away and can concur with that. Perhaps shite is a bit excessive – it has a pleasant enough beach (indeed, it’s the only sandy beach on the South Coast until you get to Camber […]

Donovan to BTS in 15 steps (via The Lego Movie soundtrack) http://boilthefrog.playlistmachinery.com/index.html?src=Donovan&dest=BTS

For readers under 70, that’s The Bee Song Hitmaker. It was a big hit in 1938. You must all remember that, surely?

Ay Thang Yew.

About a thousand years ago, my dad took me for a sit-down lunch at a popular café in Wimbledon. Sat at an adjacent table was Arthur Askey, by then into his early 70s, who was appearing at Wimbledon Theatre round […]

How does one act haughtily in a garden centre? It seems a strange venue for social one-upmanship. “Oh look, geraniums. How common.”

Unthinking rhetoric has done BoJo no particular electoral harm.

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She was an avid bridge player and my other half played a few times against her in tournaments.
Pleasant enough in person but an absolute raving Thatcherite, so…

I beg to differ. More aggressive and sarcastic Labour politicians needed please, especially now. Jess Philips may come over to some as liable to speak before engaging her brain, but I’d call that passionate and enthusiastic.

He has an accent? Just sounds like standard south-east RP to my ears.

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Source? A salary like that would be extremely unusual, would depend where you are based and would definitely involve six day working weeks and ten hour days plus overtime. Also you are likely to find yourself far […]

I believe the government has in fact already written to those holding expired HGV licences, asking them to consider returning to the job temporarily. This is in addition to European HGV drivers being offered […]

I define it as damage control. It’s already a terrible situation for the Met. Faced with a choice of either “Don’t worry, it’s just one bad apple” – which sounds dismissive and less than empathetic – or “Just […]