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Enzymes, schmenzymes
I’ve just spent a good proportion of the commute home being sarcastic to the car radio. The reason? I was listening to this, in which a ‘raw food’ enthusiast talked a lot of drivel about food. Her...
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You Ain’t Nothin’ But A…
Today’s “Bigotgate” affair has, undoubtedly, been a total PR nightmare for Gordon Brown, and can only have damaged his already fragile chances of securing a fourth term for Labour at next week’s...
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Hello!, Is It Us You’re Looking For?
I was 11 years old when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer, Queen of Hearts, the People’s Parable. I got quite excited, as 11-year-old girls will about that kind of thing. I even wrote a song...
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Stiff Upper Lip? No, It’s Frozen Solid
For the second time in as many weeks, parts of the UK have ground to a halt because of snow. (Snow! In December! Amazing!) This is causing me much anguish. Not because I am stuck, or cold, or blinded...
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Ashes To Splashes
Oh dear. It’s ‘Is It Just Me?’ time again. Redditch council has just approved a proposal to use the local crematorium as a source of heat for the swimming pool at its leisure centre. As far as I’m...
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Exclusive: The Future Of Radio Four
The BBC Trust has decided that Radio 4 is too London-centric and needs to broaden its appeal to gain younger, more Northern listeners. In a secret test broadcast, Money Box Live was one of the first...
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Big Fat Green-Eyed Monster
I have a theory. You might not like it. Over the past few days, we’ve been subjected to regular news stories about bankers earning huge, fat bonuses, despite the fact that hardly any of us can see what...
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Hair Apparent
It’s very easy to have a pop at the Daily Mail. So that’s precisely what I’m going to do. This morning, it published an article in which it appeared genuinely appalled that talented, beautiful,...
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A Trolling Tome Gathers No Loss
In November every year, the Oxford University Press, publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, picks its ‘Word of the Year’ – “a word, or expression, that we feel has attracted a great deal of...
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Tribe And Prejudice
The Guardian published a brilliant April Fool story earlier this week in which it offered its readers the chance to try a new piece of technology, Guardian Goggles, which would enable them to have a...
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Tribe And Prejudice
The Guardian published a brilliant April Fool story earlier this week in which it offered its readers the chance to try a new piece of technology, Guardian Goggles, which would enable them to have a...
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To Brexit, And All Who Sail In Her
Slip inside what’s left of your mind Don’t you know you might find A part that wants to stay You say that you’ve never been But all the blogs that you’ve seen Will make you walk away So you’ll start a...
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