Sometimes I am attracted to a book because of the cover. Sometimes I am attracted to a book because of the blurb on the back. Sometimes I am attracted to a book because I’ve read other stuff by the same author. In this specific case, I was attracted to this book because of the pun [...]

Newcastle’s Spanish left back, José Enrique, is apparently currently pondering a question which The Clash posed back in 1982… Should I stay or should I go?The Clash It would appear however, that either his mind has changed significantly over the course of only 22 minutes, or that various media sources are speculating and having fun [...]

RT: @chickyog Where has your party stood on hounding the ‘benefit cheats’ -or asking us to grass them up? http://is.gd/CDoO #sackdorries in reply to chickyog # @krishgm so far as I’m aware, she’s remaining on as his wife. I believe the de-selection process, should it be required, is called ‘divorce’ in reply to krishgm # [...]

Right, I’m not 100% sure how the MEPs voting thing works (I think, using the party list, you vote for a party, and what proportion of the votes they get determines how many MEPs they have) but for the North East, there are three MEPs up for election. Irrespective of how disillusioned someone may feel [...]

You may have read that the BNP have produced a poem which is read out by their soft toy character Billy Brit. Billy Brit reads his poem, “Heroes”, about great white Britons from our history I thought this was a bit wrong, just as think a list singling out only great black Britons is equally [...]

Thanks to @bengoldacre for pointing me in the direction of this truly interesting chap, Andy Kadir-Buxton. My impression is that Andy is either a delusional fantasist, or a true genius who has contributed so much to the world already, and could potentially cure an awful lot of the world’s ills, if only people would act [...]

…it must be a diseased tongue, presumably. It’s time to see what spam has been washed into my filters recently. Learn to tipe online Hmm. My “tiping” may not be great (I’m a six finger, one thumb typist, although my typing speed is better than most non-trained people) but I reckon my spelling is ahead. [...]

Back in “the day”, quite a long time ago now, I was a student. I used to do a lot of studenty things, which generally included staying up ridiculously late, then not actually getting out of bed until mid-afternoon. One of the other things I used to do was buy CDs. I still do buy [...]

Don’t you open that trap door, you’re a fool if you dare, Stay away from that trap door, cos there’s Barnsley down there. Well, I can’t say I’m surprised. No Alarms and No Surprises (get me outta here) With the exception of the brief aftermath of the Boro game, I’ve been thinking the team were [...]

I quite often have a look through the links and sites of people who have commented on my site, as I have found some very interesting blogs — and people — in this manner before. One of the people who commented on my previous blog entry Nadine Dorries: The Witchhunt was a certain Councillor Jack [...]