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because the corridors of power – they’re an ocean away!
29 August 2008

one of the unfortunate consequences of living in the fifty-first state of america is that we have to suffer the ball-grinding tedium that goes along with – not one but two! – general election campaigns. as well as watching the snivelling antics of our own bunch of cretins, we also have to suffer prolonged and [...]

‘political correctness’ – meet ‘barrel-scraping’
21 March 2008

it takes a special kind of fuckwitt to come up with a programme idea which combines elements of unoriginality, political-correctness and americanisation in such a haddock-stinking way that i truly thought this was an early april fool’s joke, when i stumbled upon it on the BBC’s website. for what you are looking at here, dear [...]

question marks
21 March 2008

laying into the advertising industry is a bit like kicking a dead man with two sets of knackers – not much of a challenge and plenty to aim for. but, what the hell. it’s the easter holidays and i’m entitled to take things easy. so today, children let’s contemplate one of the three or four [...]