Week 35 – It turns out that I wasn’t all set for the Christmas at all. I think I was asked the question so many times that I actually lost all sense of the true meaning of being ‘all set for the Christmas’, and basically forgot that gift-buying actually takes a little bit of effort. […]
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Monsters, friends, Tom Humphreys, excuses
Week 27, bleak af. There is a man I see around town. He looks a bit like an absent minded professor, slightly dilapidated and a bit bewildered. He seems affable enough, with a sort of half smile on his face as he meanders around the supermarket, staring blankly at yogurts and cleaning products. […]
Twitter, Caravaggio, eclipse, swearing kids
Column week 17: Twitter gets a lot of stick. In existence for eleven years, it has been accused of everything from facilitating Nazis to allowing anonymous abuse and harassment. But its enduring contribution to modern culture is the hashtag. Used as a means of linking discourses across the platform, the hashtag turned ten years […]
Public transport, not driving, Nazis in America, Ed Norton
Column, week 16: In 1988, the British director Tony Kaye made an advert for British Rail. Titled ‘Relax’, it showed a soft focus world of comfort aboard the train, where all the ills of the world whizzed by the window, and commuters drifted off into a peaceful slumber. Unsurprisingly, there were many complaints […]
Scarla Poochie, Iceland flights, oasis reunion, adam clayton
Because none of you jerks will buy a goddam newspaper I have to tweet this every week to remind you that I am super duper important. pic.twitter.com/SwHYzVjd5E — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) August 2, 2017 Somehow I still have a weekly column in the Indo. My folks would be proud and probably slightly ashamed, as they […]
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