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Very shortly, my twins will be doing their GCSE’s. This makes for a stressful household. Stressful for the boys, obviously. Very stressful for their mum and their mum being my wife, this is a stressful for me as well. This is because I am not huge on formal education – whereby children are trained to pass…
Yesterday, we took in Chessington World of Adventures – a study in pure capitalism and social status. The day began with a special trip to my local supermarket – Asda (Walmart, US giant and therefore evil) – to buy two boxes of Kellogg’s (US giant and therefore evil) cereal to gather tokens that would allow free entry…
With an election looming, there is fevered debate about the state of our nation. The haves and the have nots. Good immigration and bad immigration. Downward pressure on wages and zero hour contracts – which is usually an argument used to demonstrate how workers are being shafted. Which brings me neatly on to professional funny people…
When I played the Comedy Store I used to regularly give money to homeless people – probably because I was happy to have done a gig, was on my way home to my family in my warm house and felt a pang of guilt at my good fortune. But then I stopped giving directly and…
The famous playwright, Neil Simon in his brilliant autobiography explains the review that has been most helpful to him in his career has been – “Neil Simon did not have a good idea for a play this year, but he wrote one anyway.” I think this happens too often with novelists as well. A frequent…
Confusing news today about Clarke Carlisle and let’s not forget the very sad demise of Gary Speed not too long ago. I say confusing, because Clarke Carlisle is a man who on the face of it, appears to have it all. But of course, depression is not a factor of how things appear. Depression is…
I always enjoy the ‘experts’ who are interviewed on news bulletins and state facts that everyone knows already. Terrorism experts explaining that terrorists are notoriously volatile and difficult to defeat. Retail experts explaining that shops need to be progressive, adopt new technologies and provide their customers with what they want. Air crash experts explaining that…
Ted Robbins is a rare comedian indeed -insofar as he supports other comics. I can remember years ago sitting on the sofa of The Des O’Connor Show at Teddington Studios with Des roaring away as was his way – but I could also hear Ted laughing like a drain also from the audience. Ted was…
Increasing taxes and death are the only constants in our lives and it follows that none of us very much care for either. No one likes paying tax – and especially not a wealth tax like the mansion tax. We already have a direct tax system which is very broad. Our income is taxed. Then…
The greatest legacy of New Labours 13 year reign is that they kept us out of the Euro – albeit by fluke because Tony Blair was elected on adopting the Euro and it was central to his ambitions – but he was scuppered by Gordon Brown out of spite and not for any economic or…
