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What would you do?

sam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:16 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I was playing football for my Sunday League team, against some stunningly over-competitive old boys of Worcester College, Oxford. The second half of that sentence is totally irrelevant to the story, it’s just therapeutic to emphasise what utter gits they were.

Midway through the first-half, we trailed 2-1 when one of our forwards struck the ball into the face of an opposition defender. The referee – 32 stone, partially blind and with a mouth like a 15th century sewer – was unsurprisingly not in the best place to see what happened and awarded a penalty…

Watch out Murdoch

sam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:22:27 +0000

If you’ve been reading The Sun this week, you’ll be aware of the added difficulties facing Gordon Brown and the Labour party as they seek re-election next year. The Sun are, of course, going Conservative next summer and Rupert Murdoch does not like backing losers. ‘It was the Sun wot won it’, was the headline after their support helped Major into power in ’92, yet today newspapers have nothing like the sway of 17 years ago. So what does Murdoch do? He hammers Brown, again and again via his News Corporation empire,…

Twitter and the offencerati

sam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:27:59 +0000

Anyone whose life involves writing more than the odd shopping list will know the feeling. For a split-second (perhaps it is a trick of the mind) all your thoughts summate into one concise, witty, perfect sentence. And then – in absence of pen or dictaphone – it is gone as quickly as it came. So it was that my exact stance on Twitter came to rest somewhere on the southbound stretch of the A21 between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge – a hellish place to die.

I’m definitely not going to describe it as the internet’s marmite. Likening something to marmite is…