Gary Speed is dead. Here are some of the words that described him before he ended his own life… Footballer. Father. Successful. Popular. Handsome. Happily married. Something is wrong with this picture but we can’t seem to adjust the set. While the media scramble to find a story angle or uncover the missing piece that […]
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 […]
Burt Bacharach was wrong. What the world needs now is a parent. Rioting, looting kids? A parent would have picked up on the fact that the children were about to go bonkers and done something about it BEFORE the event. It stands to reason. It’s the summer holidays – they’re bored, with nothing to do […]
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 […]