The Musings of a Middle Aged Grumpy Bastard
Found a very interesting article on Medium on music streaming services. Link below “The Finger’s on the Self-Destruct Button” @Innerviews https://medium.com/@Innerviews/the-finger-s-on-the-self-destruct-button-8502f3cc4b5c
I’ve just heard about “Clean Reader” today. I do hope they are not selling any of my books, because there won’t be an awful lot left after Clean Reader has filtered out all the “bad” stuff. Here’s Joanne Harris’s response to an e-mail they sent her after she made her feelings about the app very Read More …
This article in the Left leaning New Statesman rules out any cooperation between what are likely to be the two parties the largest number of MPs after the next election. But for me, the quote from it that sums up all that is wrong with the British political system is this… “If on May 8 Read More …
Here, Here!
Today represents 100 days until the UK General Election of 2015. Which means we still have three months of this sort of cringe-worthy political squirming as seen when Andrew Neil interviewed Natalie Bennett, leader of the Greens on his Sunday Politics show yesterday Actually, it’s worth watching even if you’re not interested in British Politics Read More …
Well, it looks like The Sun played a huge joke on the rest of The Media and the #nomorepage3 campaign. This was tweeted earlier this evening. Tomorrow's #Page3… pic.twitter.com/pzyZ7Qhe9N — The Sun (@TheSun) January 21, 2015 Well, you know what they say, no publicity is bad publicity – that 2nd pic showing a close-up of Read More …
I saw this, frankly, brilliant meme on twitter yesterday. it pretty much sums up what the next four months are going to be like for us Brits. I feel really quite depressed about the following sentence. I’m not looking forward to this election campaign one little bit. This how I feel. I can’t help it Read More …
So it looks like The Sun’s Page 3 has gone the way of the dodo. And to be honest, I don’t know how I feel about it. First thing’s first, I don’t read The Sun. I don’t even look at the pictures. My dad still buys it every day, and for a while in my Read More …
Those of you who know me know that I’m not reactionary by nature. I may have a fiery temper, but I’ve learned to keep it pretty much in check. Lots of things about the world we live in annoy the proverbial f*ck out of me, but I generally let it boil just under the surface Read More …