One of my favourite songs ever is When The War Is Over. It was written by one of England’s great songwriters, Alan Hull, and performed by his band Lindisfarne. Click here to see the video, look below for the lyrics: When...

One thing we need to bear in mind about the Covid-19 pandemic is that we are not all behaving like twats. We are not all panic-buying toilet rolls (I can’t get anymore in my freezer anyway), we are not driving off to take...

On Tuesday 10 December 2002, the Evening Post, as the Bristol Post used to be known when it was still a serious newspaper, had a front page to strike terror into the hearts of Bristol Rovers fans: ‘Rovers at the point of...

Probably the least entertaining feature of this blog – and I do realise there are plenty of least entertaining features to choose from – is my Friday Music Shuffle. It happens every Friday, believe it or not, when I...

My loyal reader may recall a piece I wrote on this blog the other night called Stay In it, I referred to the parent of someone we know who had been admitted to hospital with Covid-19. I asked that people would hope – and...

My thoughts are with benefit claimants. All of them. 39 years of experience working for the DWP under its various names and guises has taught me that the vast majority of people who claim benefits would rather not be. There are...