I love Joe Cocker’s music, there have been few to match his intensity and, yes, grace. But the film shows only too well how he was surrounded during that tour by an unpleasant crowd of ligging hangers-on, […]

Find: ‘conspiracy’ Replace: ‘concerted lobbying attempt’

Playing sword-fighting each other with slide-rules, probably.

Van, Percy and Pulp here.

I must be three times hipper than thou, but that’s all.

Now That’s What I Call Music.

Fake news!

They should call his bluff on that.

Good grief. This is more or less content-free for what, all of 3 minutes and 16 seconds. Twaddle. Money for old rope, the crafty sod.

Multitudes, but only one of whom I visited.

More books and music for me too. The in-tray of paperbacks is three wide, two deep and about four foot high. The piles/boxes of CDs are almost elbow to elbow in the music room. I’ll need to be retired for about […]

On headed paper, “Carter Fuck”?

If Paxman said that he was wrong – what about Nick Robinson, ex President of the Oxford University Conservative Association? Having said that, I’d far rather have my political analysis from Nick than from the […]

How does one ask people if they are ‘interested in Nazis’ without loading the question in some way?

Ruddy heck, if that was thought to be ‘skilled’ and to demonstrate ‘precision and intent’ then whoever held that view has no idea what they are doing, and needs to go. Cock-up probability theory applies here I […]

When you realise that Homo sapiens is fucked, and accept that you can’t do anything about it?

Celebrity Race Across The Strictly QI Traitors Krypton Wipeout Gladiator Challenge. Celebrities? The man don’t give a fuck.

Amen to that.

For some obscure reason, the distant refrain of The Ball Of Kerrymuir just wafted through my consciousness.

This. Exactly what I thought at the time. If I can write, “Speaker says this… then goes on to finish his remarks with this exhortation…” why can’t the News team do the same thing on screen? I know they […]