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Fear Karma, Keir Starmer: The Budget Blues
Trust me, I’m old. It’s 31 October 2024. Here’s what’s gonna happen over the next few months and years as a result of yesterday’s Labour budget. First, the bean counters at the big store groups’ll have a look at the increased costs at play. Supermarkets especially. They’ll check out under performing stores. And close them. […]
Busted? Dealing with the Police
Busted by the police? We managed to save some of the content from the ‘Murphy’s Law’ web site before it went offine. It was written to help kids but seems tourists and residents will now need this too. Shame, but there it is. Below we show you common police tactics to get you to stop […]
AI – think you’re so clever?
Ok, so there’s loads of guff about artificial intelligence and how it steals stuff to perform its magic. After all, how can AI come up with an image of your cat, Banksy style, if its cold, empty soul doesn’t consume every Banksy image it can find? Or every cat? You want AI to give you […]
Bustonomics!
Is it all part of some great plan? Make everything soooo expensive that little businesses can’t survive? There I was in Camden, Italian restaurant, Thursday, only one other couple in the place, surprised to be sharing their amorous encounter. Where is everybody? I asked. ‘Busy at weekends, And Fridays. Usually. It’s tough. Hey – we’ve […]
Climax Blues Band – Tribute or not?
Well. I loved the deep growling sound of Colin Cooper on ‘Couldn’t Get It Right’ way back when (mid Seventies, if you must know). Billboard winner too, at the time. So I grabbed the chance to see Climax Blues Band at The Forge last Thursday. Could be the last time they played, eh? Even took […]
That Corbin ‘n King Thing
Zedel then: ‘Have a lovely evening – Jenny will show you to your table.’ Smiley face emoji. Zedel now: ‘We want your table back by 9.30.’ Face hidden by screen emoji. Service so desultory that even 10.30 proved ambitious emoji. WTF! Used to was when anything these chaps did was a byword for quality. Expensive […]
BoJo and the Tiers of Learned Helplessness
They say history is written by the winners. Rubbish. History is written by whoever gets in first. An American president can paint a simple history of his choosing in a series of 140 occasionally coherent characters, and those characters are truth, are history, to an attention span unbefogged by the ensuing noise. Come election time, […]
Talent: Just Say ‘No’!
Had a bit of a turn the other day. A bright-eyed, budding young thespian showed me the contract an agent had asked them to sign. Bloody outrageous. Really pissed me off. (No – not asking me to read the thing, you prune – the terms cunningly concealed in it!) The contract wanted a sole and […]
One Boot in the Grave.
What is the point of the high street? Wet, cold, packed with, happily, shrinking numbers of multiple stores all selling the same tat you can buy on the internet for less and without the hassle. Take Boots. Customer service based on the ‘ you’re lucky we can be bothered to take your money – school […]