It’s that special time. The season’s finished. The year ends with an even number. Telly is shit. It can only mean… it’s time for a load of fat ex-pros, fat club managers and soon-to-be-fat injured footballers to analyse a major football...
Beer brand-building Sometimes as a copywriter you are asked to write about something boring and paid reasonable money for it. Sometimes as a copywriter you are asked to write about something interesting and paid nothing for it. This is a tale, fortunately for you,...
Shaun Keaveny this morning asked for listeners’ ‘jokes that only work on BBC Radio 6 Music’. I didn’t offer this one up as it also requires some bi-lingual skill. I came up with it, somewhat unbelievably, when in the midst of a heavy hangover...
I’m a pretty decent writer. However today I have been a waste of oxygen. I used to enjoy a midweek drink, and even sort of get a kick out of struggling through the next day. It isn’t quite as fun when ineffective = not earning though. Uncommon practice as...
A title bristling with insinuation, isn’t it? Well I’m not going to damn it to hell, but I’ve always had a bit of an issue with the Mercury Music Prize. Or the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, as it now refers to itself. But rather than just blindly slagging it off like...
