Red Tape

Originally posted on my Vox blog in January 2008.
I mentioned about my pal’s stocking filler book about red tape which gives some insight into the way that unnecessary and futile government/corporate procedures can adversely affect peoples’ lives, sometimes in the most dramatic and serious way. Red tape in fact is very much like political [...]

Another World (4)

What the?

Another World (3)

I feel that further comment would perhaps be unseemly and perhaps rather vulgar in this case.

Another World (2)

What about these? genuine do you think? hmmmmm.

Another World

All 100% genuine!

Turning Into Your Parent(s)

I’m of course totally absorbed by the up and coming day in Annan with Dumbarton FC hence the light posting but I noticed this topic on the B3TA message board. The following questions occurred to me.
Have you for example ever used the phrase “whoops a daisy”?
Do you own a beige cardigan?
Have you ever said “oooh, [...]

Cutting Edge – Don’t Believe the Hype

I was having a wee look at The Helpless Dancer’s blog where he was featuring the new iPod Shuffle. One of the features is that if you press a button whilst listening to a song a voice will tell you the song name and recording artist.
Now I’ve thought about this and I can hardly think [...]

Taboo or not Taboo

Following on from the Carol Thatcher thing (see my post below “Double Standards”) I kept asking the question why Thatcher’s  comment was seized on whilst many others in the British media go about their stock in trade racism relatively untroubled.
I have an answer as I had when I posed the question.
Simon Heffer in the Telegraph [...]

Children In Need

I heard Fred McAulay on Radio Scotland say something this morning that made me think. He said ‘Children in Need is great because everybody buys into it’.
What about you?
Let me say of course it’s great that people donate money and that it finds its way to many good and varied causes which help children (in [...]

Alan Partridge is Alive and Well.

This is ‘broadcaster’ Les Ross on BBC West Midlands ‘interviewing’ Hardeep Singh Kohli. Thanks to Tom Morton for the heads up on probably the most toe-curlingly embarrassing radio interview you will ever hear. Quite how Kohli manages to refrain from multiple obscenity is a mystery.