There are only two times in my life that I’ve nearly been lynched, once was a road rage incident in India when somebody threw a rock at me and I lost it, the other was last night outside a William Hill betting shop in Victoria station. The idea was good. Furtive gamblers at 9.30pm crouched [...]
Monty’s Outlook
The curious case of Peter Reid, J F Kennedy and the sh*thole, sorry, City of Plymouth
Plymouth is a horrible little city, its streets are wide and the wind blows deep across the soul for anybody unlucky enough to be spending time there. The nearby Devonport Dockyard not only services nuclear submarines, it also serves up squaddies who do their usual weekend punch-up thing. It also has the ugliest shopping centre [...]
Quite possibly the thickest Australian who’s ever lived… and that’s saying something
“Australian culture involves fun activities like barbecues, throwing people into pools and being at peace.” Those illuminating words were spoken by Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds after it was announced that he would be going into the Bigg Boss house, India’s somewhat antiquated version of the Big Brother house. He is as dense as a pre-global [...]
Steve Jobs couldn’t light an iPad candle to Bob Dylan
The dust has settled, the iPad candles have tapered out and a-man-who-employed-more-creative-people-to-put-his-ideas-into-action has gone away; away to a most uncertain fate. Yes, Steve Jobs is dead. He once called death a great invention. Hopefully he is still of that view, but none of us know. I searched in vain for an ironic tribute in UK [...]
What happens in a Swedish digital prison, stays in a Swedish prison
I think I’m going to explode. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, I can’t see, I can’t hear, my head is busted, stomach cracked, feet splintered, I am bald, naked… lucky to be alive though. That’s where so-called modern travelling gets you. Two weeks ago it was Ghana for a long weekend, then up at 5am to [...]
