Alcohol-related crime wave

I see the Manchester police have launched a crackdown on alcohol-related violent crime. Yesterday as a prelude to my birthday my radiant companion and her sister planned to take me on a mini-pub crawl from Holland Park to chez nous …

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Yet another parliamentary jape

As all connoisseurs of bureaucratic filth know, the greatest source of public sector masturbation, corporate horseshit and all-round fuckwittery is the jobs section of The Guardian. Here dedicated reader and marketing maven Rezbi found the following announcement, clearly drafted by …

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A bit of cultural enlightenment for you

My friend Andy Owen, speaker, copywriter extraordinaire and good pal sent me this: “The budget should be balanced and the Treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. The …

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Shame (and hypocrisy) all round

This morning in the Metro free paper there was a headline about a “Teacher’s Shame” with a picture of an attractive blonde. “Hello, hello,” I said to myself. “Some lucky young chap has had his dreams come true”. As we …

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Thank you, thank you, thank you

One of my colleagues remarked today that I was being provided a lot of material for this record of the random follies of mankind. But few greater gifts have been given lately than the news of the schoolboy who, out …

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