I have always had a soft spot for Adrian Chiles going right back to the mid-nineties when he did a programme called ‘The Working Lunch’ at a time I first started out running my own business.
Since then he has done a host of radio shows, MOTD 2 and various TV programmes, including the excellent Blacks v Whites documentary a couple of years back.
Amongst a host of establishment presenters who knew only of Eton and Oxbridge, to me, ...
I didn’t know what to expect when Jennifer booked a trip to Menorca a while back and I must confess that I do tend to rely on her for such things.
This is because my attention to detail with regards to booking anything online is useless and there is a high chance we would end up in the type of place that I might not ever be forgiven for, spending a week with Barry Butcher, a Charlton fan who doesn’t like darkies (except Frank Bruno)...
It's True, it's Going to be Hot Until October!
I am writing this blog onboard 'Late Flight EZY8303' to Mahon. It is going to be hot where we are heading and it will be hot in the UK when I return...UNTIL OCTOBER!!
I know this because a barman in my local pub, a woman on the till at Sainsbury's, and a bloke on the radio told me so. Everyone is at it, despite no evidence except that a long weather forecasting effort at putting together ...
I turned on Newsnight last night and the subject was the Labour Party anti-Semite row “that just won’t go away”.
It reported that ‘The Times’ was publishing proof that Jeremy Corbyn hosted an event (in 2010) where it was said Israeli’s were behaving like the new Nazis. The event was called ‘Never Again for Anyone - From Auschwitz to Gaza’ so you don’t need to be Poirot to work out its content and how, in the opinion of at ...
What I can't help noticing lately is how many people assume that a Brexit deal with our European neighbours should be easily solved by simply telling the EU countries what we want, and they can either lump it or like it.
There is a theory that they need us just as much, if not more, than we need them, so as someone leaving the club, we should dictate the situation to Johnny Foreigner or else.
The government is split (Labour appear no ...
