Category: Eclectic Blue

I’m a keen follower of the Animal Aid website Race Horse Death Watch. It was set up in 2007 after the annual carnage at the Cheltenham Festival. Since then there have been 2026 horse deaths in 4702 days. It is a statistic...

‘Following the Labour leadership hustings held today by the party’s biggest affiliate, Unite, the union has declared that it is backing Rebecca Long-Bailey for leader. Unite is also backing Richard Burgon as deputy...

In the interests of genuine equality, Mrs Eclectic Blue, my better half, my reason for being, love you to the moon and back and all that shit has requested – no, demanded – that she be allowed a Friday shuffle. So,...

No time to lose. It’s Friday, the weather’s crap and it’s time to turn on my music centre and let it choose ten tunes at random. Then, I’ll tell you what they are. A Choir Of One by Thom Yorke. From the...

Probably, the most ill-judged decision of very many ill-judged decisions I ever made was to become self-employed, when I decided to make a real go at this writing malarkey. The best part of six years later and success continues...

Apropos of nothing, I found myself today in the same room as someone who was watching a television show called This Morning, presented by the silver-haired friend of Gordon the Gopher (one for the kids, there), Philip Schofield...

If you would like to read the precise definition of the word stupid, allow me to share with you today’s mind-numbingly dull tweet from June Mummery, one of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party MEPs: Attending the penultimate...

I’ve done a 180 on the skateboarders who gather daily in the area before the Cenotaph on Bristol City Centre. Built in 1932, ours was one of the last monuments built after the First World War. It’s beautiful and...

It’s cold, and dark, and we are skint after Christmas, and we have failed on our resolutions and we are tired. The third Monday in January is called Blue Monday. And quite rightly, too, because it is literally the most...

Always look on the bright side of life. If only. Sadly, clinical depression doesn’t always allow that but I suppose things could be worse. For example, I could be Henry Windsor, the artist formerly known as Prince Harry,...

British brexiters living in Spain told Ch.4 News they felt remorse at their decision to vote Leave as they now face an uncertain future after Brexit. They only voted Brexit as they were worried about immigration back in the UK...

Anyway, winter is coming to an end. There’s barely six weeks to go until spring and that’s why, obviously, we are about to have a cold snap. Whatever. It’s warm here in my Man Cave and it’s going to get...