Football predictions

Thank goodness the football is starting again. How do we cope for those couple of months without it – every year!
Here are my predictions for the season. Most aren’t who I would necessarily wish to win, although I have been a Liverpool fan for 30 years. It’ll give me an interest in every division, including [...]

Is Gordon Brown just visiting our planet?

Sometimes I feel like being silly. Tom Harris’s post Let’s play The Remake Game invited ideas for who should play the lead roles in film remakes.
I suggested a remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still‘ starring Gordon Brown as Gort, the indestructible robot.
Ah, but Gort’s mission was to make us Earthlings live in peace [...]

Gary McKinnon

For the benefit of my several overseas visitors, Gary McKinnon is a British man who has Asperger’s Syndrome and has been accused of hacking into Pentagon websites looking for evidence for UFOs. He is due to be extradited to the USA thanks to the unequal agreement between the two countries. If found guilty, he faces [...]