Pronounced as "I Write" - unutterably unctuous, plausibly perspicacious
I’ve only just realised that my Dad is handicapped! That sounds like a bloody stupid thing to say, doesn’t it? It is, however, alarmingly true. Sometimes we just don’t see what’s in front of us as unusual, if that’s how they’ve always been.
My dad is almost 72. Like Clive James, he says “The Second World [...]
This is a repost of an article I published anonymously on another website earlier this year. I did so because I wrongly thought I shouldn’t be seen to provoke the journalists I am complaining about. I now think I should have put my name to it.
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I’ll keep this short. I am disgusted [...]
I just had to add this. As you may know, I am from Airdrie, and my home town team are therefore Airdrie United.
Last weekend, in commemoration of Remembrance Day, the good people at the club decided to depict a wartime picture on the cover of the programme, showing a train scene with soldiers going [...]
The past week has thrown up a couple of instances where the content of your Twitter account can be grounds for prosecution (or persecution, depending on your perspective). Paul Chambers was charged with “Menace over a communications network”, found guilty and fined £2,000. Tory Councillor, Gareth Compton (a barrister no less) was also charged after [...]
I’m not supposed to say any of this, because it’ll seem like showing off. I assure you though that I’m not, because I don’t really think I have that much to show off about.
This week on The Apprentice (yes I know), that annual celebration of braggadocio and bullshit over ability and achievement, one particular [...]
