Bollocks while the world burns
A snapshot—or screen grab—of the times we live in from today’s Guardian. On the left, a report on extreme heat events and deaths around the world caused by climate change…
We need to talk about Adrian Chiles. But do we really have to?
We need to talk about that Adrian Chiles. Do we have to? I don’t want to. I don’t want to either, so let’s make it quick. Thing is, Adrian has…
Billionaire wins media plaudit in billionaire love-in surprise
And Psipook’s Smear of the Year is … Time has its Person of the Year thing. Psipook has its Smear of the Year. Why should the corporates monopolise the validations?…
Open letter to Keir Starmer (Sir)
Fuck you. The hard choices will be between food and heat this winter, not between pandering to the tabloids and doing the right thing. Also noted: Are you aware of…
A night in the Norfolk Inn, Paddington. With added bed bugs
There was a bed bug; an actual bed bug on my actual body. In a hotel. In actual London. I know there is some reservation in the world about naming…
Bollocks to BoJo
Let’s not get excited now. Even if Johnson goes, the Tories will still be lording it over us; the chumocracy, the entitlement, the social and economic vampirism ain’t going away.…
BP Portrait award 2010
A painting of a dead woman wins the BP Portrait Award, 2010 … surely the winning image in a BP show should be of dead pelicans and fish and dolphins…
Armchair warriors
This image proudly adorns the front page of a US conservative web site — ArmchairWarrior — that claims to be putting an end to thinking everywhere. Very clever sign, this.…
No link between Saddam and Al Qaida: gosh!
In case you missed the interim US report into Bush’s bullshit, click here. If I lie to my friends and colleagues, people lose faith in me. When Bush and Blair…