There's a super poll on Boris Johnson on the Guardian website.

The two options are 'Spiffy' and 'Cripes'*

Needless to say I voted for 'Cripes'. Bring back Ken!

Broadly equating to 'Great' and 'Crap' for those of us who aren't middle class toffs.

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
I scored an average of 2.14

01 2 3 4 5
6 HeterosexualBisexualHomosexual
Meaning
0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than ( Read more... )

Julie Bindel seems to have noticed the protest outside the Stonewall awards. As a result, the Guardian, in their wisdom, has let her publish a self indulgent piece about how she, “just wants to be left alone”.

Here’s some free advice Julie, If you truly wanted to be left alone, to hold your occasionally repellant views, then you shouldn’t really ( Read more... )

There’s now a new shopping centre in London called Westfield. There are no green fields near it or in it. It is in the west of London though.

The location is on the site used for the 1908 Olympics and also for the Franco-British Exhibition of the same year. The exhibition was acclaimed as one of the wonders of the Edwardian age. It was elaborate ( Read more... )

A moment in time.

History is made of days like this. In years to come I suspect people will ask, “Where were you when the first black president of the United States was elected”. Jessie Jackson, (who was standing next to Martin Luther King when he was shot) was in tears as I suspect were a lot of African Americans ( Read more... )

I’m watching McCain make his speech conceding the election to Obama. It’s dignified and respectful and good. Although, sadly, some of the crowd booed Obama, which is pretty crap ( Read more... )

I’m staying up late to watch the US elections.

4.00am. Obama has just got to the point where he’s won. Words fail me right now but suffice to say I'm glad that he won and a tiny bit of me thinks that the world might have just changed a little for the better.

In the words of Martin Luther King:

“...I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply ( Read more... )

...part of me wishes I was when I see inspiring and clever advertising like this. Basically this is a very clever piece of film created by Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Tom Cruise and various other actors, musicians and people with an interest in making sure Americans vote in this election ( Read more... )

I’ve always been a bit of a magazine fetishist and a little bit of a hoarder, (although this is in truth probably an understatement).

As a child who was a fan of science fiction, I managed to accumulate a complete set of 2000AD comics from issue one through to 300. Due to ripped page worry I never took the gifts off the front page so all the ( Read more... )

Brilliant. Funny. And actually rather good too!

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