Greeks Are Being Robbed Of Their Pensions To Pay Bankers In Frankfurt
I support the EU. But one cannot help but waver when it seems intent on proving right the Eurosceptic criticism that it is undemocratic and remote from the interests of the people. Its current attempt...
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View ArticleGlory Glory Danny Blanchflower: A Tribute To Tottenham's Greatest Ever Captain
Referencing Danny Blanchflower’s famous quote about glory has often meant ignoring the bit about winning. His striving for both still makes him one of football’s greatest icons...Continue reading
View ArticlePrimrose Hill: Nice Place Ruined By Complete Whoppers
[img via] Telling someone that you live in Primrose Hill, London, is a strange experience. It’s tedious to be told repeatedly that you should be glad to live around so many (supposedly) famous people....
View ArticleA Tribute To Backstreet Snooker Halls
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View ArticleThings My Girlfriend Taught Me Pt 3: The Birds & The Worms
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View ArticleHow Petty Nationalism Is Set To Destroy Churchill's Human Rights Legacy
[img via]Contrary to the promise David Cameron made when he first rose to power, he has repeatedly chosen to “bang on about Europe”. Whilst the referendum on EU membership draws more headlines, his...
View Article50 Going On 20: Confessions Of A Happy Man Who Won't Grow Up
[img via]"Hi, my name is Phil and I'm 50 going on 20". It sounds like the introduction to an addiction therapy meeting in a dingy church hall, but it's not; it's something (I think) I'm proud of.The...
View ArticleModern Life's 8 Greatest Social Media Highs
[img via]Daily life isn't exactly action-packed with fist pump moments. Yes there's friday afternoons, paydays, bank-holidays and Susannah Reid but generally not loads to high-five Brian in IT support...
View ArticleBloke Crashes £1m Porsche In Car Park
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View ArticleRemembering My First Pill: Leeds Festival, 2010
[img via]It wasn’t a pill, really. It was a pile of slightly greenish looking crystal and lumps of powder, folded up meticulously in a leaflet advertising some sort of club night in town. One of the...
View ArticleAn Ode To The Pre-Festival Party Train
It starts with an ironically named WhatsApp group: ‘Festival Dicks’, ‘Bangs Out For Bestival’, ‘NoClassTonBury’, ’sprREADING’, or ’Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Turds.'“So you’re getting the 10.40,...
View ArticleMystic Mike's Horoscopes: August
As Sabotage Times resident omnipresent mystical entity, I will be focussing on your destinies and furiously rubbing my crystal balls until ectoplasmic predictions come spewing forth into the now...
View ArticleMemories Of '90s School Playground Football
Img via" tml-render-layout="inline"> People talk about Maradona’s mazy dribble against England in ’86; Marco Van Basten’s volley against USSR in ’88; Ibrahimovic’s Raleigh Activator of a bicycle...
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img via" tml-render-layout="inline"> 'I'm not boasting or anything, but I've survived more apocalypses than I can remember...' We've all heard of the recent end of the world on the 21st of December...
View ArticleWhy Our Grandparents Are F*cking Ace
Nothing in the repertoire of a stand-up comic is more likely to earn my undying contempt than one of those charmless gags at the expense of old people. You know the sort, one of those about smelling...
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View ArticleI Was In The World Trade Center When The Planes Hit
On September 11th 2001, I was staying at the Marriott World Trade Center – the hotel at the foot of the Twin Towers. I was a diplomat at the British Embassy in Washington DC – posted there by Gordon...
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