I like a good conspiracy theory. They make excellent pub-chat and were lots of fun back in 2015, before they became dangerous and terroristy. For me, they are particularly fun when they combine or contradict into a super-conspiracy. My own super-conspiracy that I am wanting to push is that no animals are real. They’re all Continue reading

I doubt I’m ever going to do stand-up, but if I was, I have one story in my pocket that would work. It never fails to get laughs. This is that story. This story happened recently, and by that I mean it happened pre-Covid. I was getting the bus to my parents one Saturday morning. Continue reading

Every Christmas for the last few years, LadBaby have got the UK Christmas Number One single. I’ve always thought I get irrationally angry at this. But now, with the half a year’s separation from that annual event, I’ve come to my senses. It is perfectly rational to dislike this occurrence. Here is a rambling essay Continue reading

The 16th season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia just finished airing. I thought it was a return to form after not really enjoying (the clearly COVID affected) season 15. There was less of the self-reflecting meta-humour that veteran shows are wont to do and more plots focussed on what the Gang does best (being Continue reading

Saudi Arabia is currently pumping millions and billions into sport. Partly golf (which well, meh), but also football. As agreed by everyone who isn’t receiving one of those petrodollars, this is a bad thing. As one of those people I also agree, though I think football is on a slippery slope, Saudi money or not.  Continue reading

Whenever a celebrity or sportsman is ‘cancelled’ for ‘historic tweets’, I immediately have to search out the offending tweet. It feels grubby and I know I am feeding the clickbait outrage machine, but I feel I need to know. I want to see just how offended I should be by the tweet. Or rather how Continue reading

An introduction. Does a blog need an introduction? There is a very miniscule chance that anyone starts reading from here. Most likely, if you’re reading this, you’ll have scrolled through numerous other, hopefully better written, posts. But maybe I need to vomit some writing out of the way. The pilot episode of a sitcom is Continue reading