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the scramble for the arctic

Donald Trump has spent much of his life in real estate and it transpires that, at 2.2 million sq km and being a whole 25% bigger than Alaska, he has good reason for wanting to buy Greenland.

two-four-six-eight motorway

The voice of Britain’s right-wing agent-provocateur, Tommy Robinson is the best-known, infamous figure on the far-right of UK politics and, being the subject of Naughty Nigel and Elon Musk’s high-profile ‘free-speech’ spat, has elevated him even further within the public consciousness. But who exactly is Tommy Robinson?

happy new year 2025

Another year gone, and as I shuffle closer to the afterlife, I find myself increasingly looking around and thinking ‘the lights are on but no-one’s home’. Not the jogger with her earbuds in. Not the teenager with the oversized headphones listening to his beats.

festive film frolics

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. There. I’ve said it. And I don’t care how many well-read, supposedly celluloid-savvy individuals tell me otherwise, it just isn’t.

tariffs. glorious tariffs.

As it transpires, President-elect Trump’s call to put ‘America first’ and cease its foreign adventures is nothing new and has a well-established pedigree in US history.

it’s my life. don’t you forget.

So sang the enigmatic and greatly undervalued singer-songwriter, Mark Hollis, before his premature, Beatles-inspired, demise at the age of only sixty-four. I remain confident, however, that he would’ve had an insightful opinion or two wrt today’s assisted-death discussion.

run to the hills

Admittedly not quite QAnon but, at the risk sounding like a conspiracy theorist, what exactly is Project 2025, a document that has been referred to as ‘a second American revolution’ and why is it being featured in the US news more and more?

eight billion and counting

No, not another of Rachel Reeves’s pre-budget fiscal black holes but the number of people now on Earth, and it’s set to increase further still, at a staggeringly fast rate.

newly anointed king of the world

Okay, so following last night’s final Tory MP’s electoral vote, the party has confirmed the two candidates to be submitted to its 120,000 membership are Honest Bobby, a man with more faces than Jim Carrey and KemiKaze, a woman so angry she picks fights with her own reflection.

keep the faith

It’s hard to say the honeymoon is over as it never really got underway. Mind, a rocky-start isn’t necessarily a sign of a weak government. Looking back through recent history Tony Blair stumbled with a donations row involving Bernie Ecclestone and Margaret Thatcher’s early period in office was characterised by infighting and widespread confusion.

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