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Have a happy digi-totalitarian 2015
This blog post started off as a hastily scrawled list of New Year’s resolutions. I had two: To hit blog deadlines [FAILED – New Year’s resolutions posted 14 January] and don’t eat kebabs [still active]. It evolved over a series of entries into a broad disapproval of society’s digital addiction. Happy New Year, its 2015, a new […]
Posted in: Opinion
Glasgow’s worst – The ‘Best Kebab’ sent me to rehab
October 23, 2014
Dear Advertising Standards Agency. Yesterday, I purchased a mixed kebab from ‘Best Kebab’ located 58 Dundas Street Glasgow G1 2AQ. The £5.50 mixed kebab was reputed to come with ‘Sarald an Sos’. Sarald was composed of long, raw onions that resembled peeled skin and Sos looked as if it was squeezed from a mould-bloated plague […]
Posted in: Review
George Square disgrace – Why won’t the BBC call the ‘Union flag carrying’ thugs No supporters?
September 20, 2014
George Square was invaded last night by the worst elements of scum Scotland has to offer. This came after weeks of peaceful demonstrations in Glasgow’s centre, resulting in no arrests. Nonetheless, a night of violence and terror ensued. I’ve analysed the BBC’s coverage of this event. Additionally I pulled together the videos showing what really […]
Posted in: Account, independence
I’m voting Yes to leave the union – I’ll always wish we had the power to improve it instead
September 16, 2014
I am a Yes voter, I decided so last month. As a reporter, and further, as a concerned voter, I needed time to weigh up the facts, which I naively assumed would appear in the final weeks of the campaign. The Scottish people were completely undeserving of the shit-flinging competition they received instead. Instead, we […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
My month without a phone [spoiler] wasn’t as bad as you would imagine
July 22, 2014
I have not had a mobile phone this last month. Poverty has had me in its mysteriously sticky grasp and it is unlikely I’ll be unpeeled from the cruel mandible of fate anytime soon. In the space of nine days, both my iPhone 4S and iPhone 3G died for no apparent reason – other than […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
What happened in Amsterdam as I remember it…
June 8, 2014
What my mum said: “Amsterdam, it’s a seedy, seedy little place – watch you don’t lose yourself there. And don’t… emm… you behave.” What I heard: “Amsterdam, is a seedy, seedy little place. Don’t you behave.” The Fellowship I visited Amsterdam with a mangy bunch of fucks I call friends. I will mention […]
What’s happening in Ukraine – is the Cold War heating up?
March 5, 2014
Events in the Ukraine are being described by UK foreign secretary William Hague as the “biggest crisis in Europe in the 21st century”. Here’s what happened The pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia (after his family were allegedly shot at by militants) as Ukraine’s month of protests against a Russian financial bail out […]
A Yes vote for Scottish Independence won’t ensure an escape from the Conservative party
February 26, 2014
The question keeps arising – are you voting yes or no? As a journalist and a chap who remains informed on politics to make up for the five years I lost to Call of Duty in my teens, I have yet to make up my mind. I have been listening intently to both campaigns since their […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Five common relationship tips – if women’s magazines were written by men
January 23, 2014
I was flicking through Cosmo one evening reading the advice columns when I came across the worst ever advice. ‘Your man will like it if you teasingly bite his glans’. This misguided (or malicious) sentence could never be written by a man. so I started toying with the idea of what a man would write […]
5 unconventional ways to reduce the UK budget deficit
October 23, 2013
We’re in debt. We. The UK. I shop in Lidl and Farmfoods. This just won’t do! Excluding temporary loans to banks the UK is currently sitting on a budget deficit of £13.2bn and borrowing is expected to sit around £80bn (5.1% of GDP) – excluding the sale of the Royal Mail. I figured I should […]
Enthused Musings and News 
January 14, 2015
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