Monthly Archives: February 2012
24/02/12 A Full Life
And after a while – with my mother tearing out the hair I’m surprised didn’t fall of its own accord years ago, and my auntie and I playing good cop / bad cop to the duty Doctor’s idea of palliative care – my Nan is finally on morphine. If it wasn’t for the wonderfully compassionate [...]
Tags: Britain, Death, Politics, Portsmouth
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- Posted under Science & Nature
11/02/12 Exclusive: Cleveland Police ill-prepared for apocalypse
I don’t want to alarm anyone living in Middlesbrough any more than they already will be – having woken up and, rubbing the sleep from their eyes, remembered that they live in Middlesbrough – but far from ‘Putting People First’, Cleveland Police doesn’t have your back; in fact it would appear that they are perfectly content [...]
Tags: cleveland police, december 21st 2012, End-times, freedom of information act, freedom of information request, Journalism, mayan prophecy, Middlesbrough
- 8 comments
- Posted under Mockery & Satire
09/02/12 Magnetic Gandhi
I read an interesting article the other day in which Stewart Lee raises a terrifying argument about Scottish Independence; a point summed up succinctly in the sub heading: The loss of 5.5 million Scots would mean 5.5 million fewer voices to say no to Cameron’s cronies. As you may know, there are more pandas in [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Drugs, End-times, Food, Money, Multimedia, Politics, Scotland, Writing
- 3 comments
- Posted under Rants & Tirades
08/02/12 Me, talking
These next two tracks were exercises both in writing for broadcast and recording. I can only hope that the subjects were made up, but even so, pieces of a baby found flushed down a toilet? Really? I didn’t realise Bret Easton Ellis was writing NCTJ exams. I think these examples of my effete lisp are [...]
Tags: Journalism, Middlesbrough, Multimedia, Radio
- 6 comments
- Posted under Homework
