Archive for month: February, 2012

I’d like to thank…

27 February, 2012 (15:34) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I do try to be even tempered, really I do, but goodness me, don’t the Oscars try the patience? Very rich and very vacuous people allowed, no, encouraged to think the wide world gives a flying fart for them and their crass utterances as they saunter up and down the red carpet in their designer rags […]

Summon the nurses

20 February, 2012 (14:58) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I know that in a normal world the only proper reaction to the sight of Michael Gove opening his mouth to speak would be to summon the nurses. Unfortunately, our world seems to be some sort of parallel creation where the usual laws of sense and reason have been flipped on their head – to […]

Six of the worst

13 February, 2012 (17:15) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I really do think it’s time for a moratorium on the diktat that it’s rude to say “I told you so”. Well, at least for me. Many, many years ago folk like me were derided for protesting at that crazy-mad Thatcher and her plans to sell off public service utilities to the private sector. “It’s […]

Pass the sick bucket

6 February, 2012 (10:54) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

The first faint blush of pink dawn was peeping coyly over the Eastern trees. Birds were wiping the sleep from their eyes and clearing their throats ready for a twinkling chorus. Management and I lay comfortably in the conjugal container. The dog had been booked into the kennels for the night so we could catch […]