Reports are coming over the wires that at least 125 people have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. A wall near the temple is said to have collapsed, causing panic among thousands of gathered devotees. This is a tragedy and I assure you I am […]
No, I am not angry that the brilliant US band Pavement are no more, this is to do with the causeway. According to a new study carried out by Nurofen Express commuters spend almost three and a half days a year waiting behind slow moving pedestrians. Around 52 per cent of the British workforce are […]
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I have not slept for the last two nights. I feel sick and have started hallucinating. My temper is now so short that if anyone so much as smells me I’ll have ‘em. Oh boy, pumped up on caffeine and sugar I think my eyes are about to pop out of their sockets. Boy […]
When I was a small boy one Paul Francis Gadd asked me repeatedly if I wanted to join his gang. At the time a tin foil suit and platform heels seemed like an intriguing proposition.
With a hairbrush in place of a microphone, sticky play felt replacing facial side-burns, wide corduroy flares with a patch on […]
Why oh why have all the members of staff for London Underground, that I have come into contact with, been so rude? Do they receive special training in the art of unpleasantness? Or is it something they work hard at, developing their gruff unapproachable exterior over time? Or have I only had dealings with a […]
I awoke in the middle of the night covered in sweat and screaming. What could have happened to cause such a reaction? Was there a man stood at the end of the bed? Had a meteorite smashed through the window? Was I having another unfortunate bowel incident? Then I remembered – A-level results.
Today students in […]
I did the crazy thing of ordering items over the internet a couple of weeks ago. I had the vague hope that they would be delivered to me. Thousands of people do this daily. So why oh why have I had such a problem and still not received my goods?
I am not going to name […]
The world of t-shirt logos can be a very dangerous and disruptive place. It is so very easy to offend with some off hand printed japery. Sometimes these logos are just totally bizarre – obviously created by the mind of a crazy person and worn by similarly unstable individuals.
Walking over the Millennium Bridge this morning […]
New figures released today by the Home Office show that Taser use is on the increase. The devices were used 159 times and discharged 26 times in the last three months. Since the Taser was first introduced in England and Wales in April 2004 they have been used 2,662 times.
These figures only account for use […]