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...
I’ve been known to complain. Like after my girlfriend and I had been shoehorned into a knackered old coach without a toilet for four hours on our return from a three-day festival. And when I ordered a new bath panel and nobody ever contacted me about it, or its...
OMG, FOMO is actually a thing IMO. Or ‘Oh My God, Fear Of Missing Out is actually a thing In My Opinion’. I’m sure you knew that. AO (Acronym Overkill) These everyday chat acronyms are pretty annoying in general, a lazy bastardisation of our beautiful language....
I want to look like Jean Claude Van Damme. I’m going to earn a million quid. I will be an astronaut by next Christmas. What do these three statements have in common? Other than being… err… aspirational? THEY’RE UNREALISTIC. At least on their own, anyway. If you want...
‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ Andy Williams may have exclaimed. But the potential for gross error is also at its optimum. Follow these tips to walk the fine line between bore and lunatic, and ensure you don’t end up being your company’s jingle bell-end....
Almost overnight, Harringay Green Lanes has gone from a one-pub drinking wasteland to a multi-bar drag. I didn’t even see it coming. The Finsbury, opposite Finsbury Park and near Manor House tube, is at the southern end of Harringay’s section of Green Lanes. It had a...
