PWR BTTM: Pageant
How about some queercore garage punk? PWR BTTM — the name means something empowering to do with buggery — are…
Corbyn is the real heir to Blair
Alastair Campbell once famously punched the Guardian’s Michael White in the face. A commendable thing to do, undoubtedly, as Mr…
Blondie: Pollinator
Ah, Blondie. Those happy days of glorious power pop, chilly disco and rich, fruity vocals — Debbie Harry yearning away…
The cops should have said: it’s just Stephen Fry, what did you expect?
Coming to a workplace near you, perhaps — masturbation breaks. The policy was first recommended by a psychologist at Nottingham…
Diane’s grey matter and Labour’s sticky votes
I awoke the other morning to hear Diane Abbott’s brains leaking out of her ears and all over the carpet…
Tim’s a Christian, so he’s not allowed an opinion
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I don’t remember the BBC running a documentary 100 days into Barack Obama’s first…
Ray Davies: Americana
There is some surprise that after all these years Ray Davies has turned his attention to America. He is the…
What I expect from this pointless election
A general election is called and in a matter of hours a neutral and unbiased BBC presenter has likened our…
What message do Trump’s missiles really send?
Let me take this opportunity to join with our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in commending President Trump’s swift and…
You can take the liberal media bubble out of London…
An American woman started a website called ‘People I Want to Punch in the Throat’, in which she listed the…
The future of Today
I wonder what Sarah Sands will do to Radio 4’s Today programme? She is the first editor in more than…
Bob Dylan: Triplicate
Having seen Bob Dylan play live a few years ago, I’m pretty sure he is not the first person I…
Brexit brings us endless little beakers of joy
The thing that got me about the photo-graph which prompted the Daily Mail’s harmless but now infamous headline ‘Never mind…
The real BBC shocker: occasionally it isn’t biased
There’s one thing that bothers me a lot about the letter sent by ‘more than 70’ MPs to the director-general…
Europe’s politicians rightly feel extinction breathing down their necks
Allahu Akbar! Greetings from Samsun, where Turkish protestors — their eyeballs spinning in orgasmic Islamic rage — tried to set…
Sleaford Mods: English Tapas
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
What I did on International Women’s Day
It was International Women’s Day on Wednesday of this last week. The Guardian had enjoined its readers to send in…
Sleaford Mods: English Tapas
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
Sleaford Mods: English Tapas
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
What I did on International Women’s Day
It was International Women’s Day on Wednesday of this last week. The Guardian had enjoined its readers to send in…
A field guide to our doomed liberal elite
The latest and perhaps most damaging accusation to be levelled at Donald Trump is that he likes his steaks well-done…
A field guide to our doomed liberal elite
The latest and perhaps most damaging accusation to be levelled at Donald Trump is that he likes his steaks well-done…
Are satanic abuse cops 120 per cent gullible?
I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…
Are satanic abuse cops 120 per cent gullible?
I got lost in the forest near my house while walking the dog the other week. The path I was…
The dishonouring of David Beckham
How will we remember him, do you suppose? If you’re a committed football fan, possibly for that exquisite chip from…
