April Fool’s Day is still a few weeks away, but some of the headlines this week had me wondering whether our newspapers were having a trial run. There was Lucinda Lambton in The Independent, declaring “Public WCs were once Britain’s… Continue Reading →
Bad subbing is the literary equivalent of letting a particularly ham-fisted toddler apply your make-up — the lipstick ends up somewhere near your ear lobe. It’s hard to get away from talk of cuts at the moment. News of the… Continue Reading →
Brevity is everything in this age of non-stop texting, tweeting, instant messaging and Facebooking. As every England football fan knows, the team’s 2006 World Cup campaign was torpedoed by the distracting presence of all those WAGs (wives and girlfriends) wafting… Continue Reading →
OK, let’s get a few things straight. Anyone who doesn’t like the sound of vuvuzelas is a joyless xenophobe who wants to crush the spirit of Africa just so they can watch the World Cup in peace. The British Government… Continue Reading →
Article first published as Politics: You Can’t Count on Me on Blogcritics. Polling station Originally uploaded by secretlondon123 “This is an immensely Victorian system that’s way past its sell-by date, and here we are flogging it in the 21st century…. Continue Reading →
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