Category: Eclectic Blue

Very briefly, because I have already written about it, today’s media is obsessing on one subject and one subject only. The resignation of Theresa May and the small army of ambitious Tories who are in an unseemly race to...

Theresa May’s forced departure from 10 Downing Street saw her shed some tears. Only someone with a heart of stone could not feel at least a little sympathy for the poor woman who was only doing her best, right? I can...

If it wasn’t enough to have one music shuffle today, then here’s another; this one from my current wife. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. Cracking start...

Could things be any worse in our country? Probably. So, I’m going to switch off, albeit temporarily, from reality and play some music. And not just any music. It’s time for that weekly random shuffle of tunes from my...

And so farewell Judith Kerr, the brilliant writer and illustrator who gave us The Tiger Who Came To Tea and, my own favourite, Mog the cat. You can read proper tributes elsewhere. I write as the layman whose children were...

What a time to be alive. Yesterday, we heard the news that British Steel had gone bust, with the loss of 5000 good jobs, with the consequential loss of some 20,000 jobs in the supply chain. That’s 25,000 potential...

Deep in the heart of North Lincolnshire stands an enormous steelworks that provides 5000 good local jobs, as well as a further 20,000 in the supply chain. Tonight the company is in liquidation, desperately seeking a buyer. We...

Entirely predictable that the privately educated, former commodities trader and self-proclaimed man of the people Nigel Farage should host a fundraising lunch at the Ritz. And even more predictable that Farage should be in the...

I don’t do this heaven or hell malarkey. My view is that when life is over, it’s over and that I won’t survive my own death in order to stroll through the pearly gates to that great Wetherspoons in the sky. It...

Ever watched a TV show that had you in bits from beginning to end? That’s what happened to me today when I watched the BBC documentary ‘A Royal Team Talk: Tackling Mental Health.’ Here was footballing royalty,...

“We’ve done the domestic fucking Treble. No-one’s ever done it before,” said that Manchester City fan who broke into the press box at Wembley Stadium yesterday. “‘But you’ll all have Mo...

I went shopping very briefly in Bristol’s shopping area yesterday. The shopping area is basically divided into two; a vast modern concrete collection of shops and mid market food outlets called Cabot Circus and the old,...