about 3 weeks ago - No comments
I have occasionally dreamt of being a stand-up comedian – oh, the fame! the groupies! The nights of travelling up and down the M1 at 2am before parking in a dodgy service station! – and have therefore occasionally pondered on what my opening line would be. Omid Djalili‘s opening gambit was to come on and
about 2 months ago - No comments
and for a bit of context on what that headline means…
about 3 months ago - 7 comments
So… on the night when David Cameron finally became Prime Minister, HyperHam and I had the following conversation: HH: “Why is Mrs Cameron standing at the back, pregnant and far away from her husband?” AW: “Well, we’re living in Tory times now.” To me, this was so amazingly funny and of-the-moment, that I immediately posted
about 4 months ago - No comments
So it’s been two weeks since my last update of what the election candidates seem to be doing in the 78th Tory target seat of Hammersmith. So this is what I’ve been observing locally at least: Labour Labour have definitely gone for a personal approach. Aside from a couple of flyers stuffed through my letterbox
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
So, Gillian Duffy from Rochdale reportedly says: “All these Eastern Europeans what are coming in – where are they flocking from?” Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in a private conversation with one of his aides shortly afterwards, describes her as “bigoted”. What do you think?
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
So, I happen to live in the 78th Tory target seat, in a seat that’s currently held by a Labour MP (who couldn’t be bothered to discuss the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Commons). My council ward is a top target for the Liberal Democrats. Let’s see how much effort they’re putting into
about 5 months ago - No comments
So finally, at long last, America has joined the rest of the world in offering near-universal healthcare to its’ citizens, instead of relying on a hodgepodge of private health insurance coverage. And about bloody time too, if my brief peek into the world of American healthcare was anything to go by. HyperHam and I were
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
would they want to charge overseas tourists $10 to register for the privilege of visiting America. So they can fund a travel tourism promotion group aimed at … getting overseas tourists to come to America. And explain to tourists why they have to be fingerprinted and give away lots of their personal details. Nothing like
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
Thanks to @bloggerheads and b3ta for pointing me to this amazing late-70s UK video, celebrating the diversity of London by … having the great Derek Griffiths impersonate a Chinese man by pulling on his eyebrows and singing about Chinkies, with a popular UK song from 1969 celebrating the ‘melting’ pot’ of the UK. Derek Griffiths,
about 7 months ago - No comments
When my sisters and I were growing up (younger than ten), we were somewhat discouraged from consuming Western pop culture, ie music and films, by our parents. (Can’t you tell?) Thus, while my schoolfriends were (perhaps) reading Smash Hits et. al., we were listening to Cantopop and comedy films from Hong Kong, procured at great
about 1 year ago
In other words, in 20 years there will be people who didn’t think it really happened… they’ll say it was actually Al Jolson LOL! And I can’t wait for a Latino president.