On the first day of Christmas … dragged out shopping because the BBC said: “Don’t panic but the shops are going mad for all the MASSIVE BARGAINS!!” Growing suspicious and cynical. On the second day of Christmas … the TV looks bust but it’s just constant re-runs of Only Fools and Horses in narrow screen [...]
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We receive £5 billion directly from the EU in public sector payouts. It’s not much but it is officially on page 20 of the Treasury report: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/european_union_finances_2010.pdf The treasury figures don’t go to town on the private sector benefits which could be quite a lot depending on how well they’re doing. Membership of the EU [...]
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Last week a couple of people on authonomy made some constructive comments and suggested I stay off the site for a while and rewrite the opening. I think they were sick of me hogging the Shameless Spam forum. So I took their advice, and I’m still working on version X, but while I’ve been away [...]
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This is a photo of Peak Street in Manchester taken with my old mobile phone before it packed up. I like the Hopperesque absence of people. Going off the beaten path in any former industrial city in the UK can be like stepping into a dystopian world. This area, by Bridgewater Canal in Ancoats isn’t [...]
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Maybe to underline my previous blog about hypocrisy of the British people regarding suicide of a former premiership footballer, the Top Gear generation’s ‘much-loved’ presenter Jeremy Clarkson makes a dreadful comment on the One Show about suicide. He asked what the point was in stopping a train when someone’s jumped in front of it. It’s [...]
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I often hear British Lads mock poets, artists and musicians as morose weaklings prone to hanging themselves for their art. A fanfare for Morrissey please. It may be true, but when the popular former premiership footballer and chief Lad Gary Speed hung himself last weekend, lads everywhere were weeping into their Red Bulls and slamming [...]
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