Last night I sat through possibly the worst thing I’ve seen on a London stage – Rock of Ages. Of course I’ve been to things before that just don’t work – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg eek! On these occasions the audience is usually polite enough to clap at the appropriate places before filing out, exchanging […]
I’m in France, land of a thousand churches. To be more exact there are actually about 40,000 of them, built mainly in the middle ages. With a medieval population of around 6 million this would mean one church per 150 people. I think we can safely assume that religion was more popular than a Led Zeppelin gig […]
If I’m going to write about the soap opera previously known as News International, perhaps I need to adopt some tricks of the trade. It’s all about the headline. In surveys 8 out of 10 people will read a headline, but only 2 out of 10 will go on to read the rest of […]
Well, more specifically I started reading a news blog. Within the post were ten hyperlinks to other posts. This always fills me with alarm. I stand at the crossroads provided by each link… Shall I carry on reading the thing I started on, or shall I go down the tempting new path. I stand at […]
Nick Clegg claims that voters are so angry about Government spending cuts that they are posting dog poo through his letterbox. I don’t know where this practice started but I do know it has spread to the realms of the metaphysical world. One could forgive Nick Clegg’s frustrated constituents. Sheffield is a very working class […]