ON a day that marked the 12 month anniversary of the London Riots… On a day that saw the the most remarkable set of athletes give their all in the Olympics to win gold… On a day that saw a bunch of lesser known professional footballers capitulate and completely miss the whole point of the Olympic spirit… We saw that

PRETTY nifty infographic looking at the impact of London’s Olympic Games… For once this old cynic – and indeed my equally cynically best friend like the Olympics… In fact he wouldn’t want reminding of this… But he measures his life every 4 years with the opening of the games… And I think he’s pretty happy with his lot this time

NO that’s not a typo – rather it’s me jumping on the erotic bandwagon that is the biggest selling book on Amazon ever – 50 Shades of Grey… And inspired by the delightful parody site a friend of mine found on Facebook – 50 Sheds of Grey!!! Though I’m pretty sure any half decent practitioner of bondage could find all

FOR many of the us the simple red poppy is one of the most powerful symbols of all. But for others it can conjure up all manner of feelings including intense hatred… As we head towards Remembrance Sunday the poppy has taken centre stage this week with politicians, royalty, peace campaigners, extremist groups and even FIFA scoring an own goal

GADAFFI was shot down in cold blood as he begged for his life in front of a blood thirsty lynch mob… Say hello to the new bosses same as the old bosses… The cold blooded killing was sickening enough but what I’ve found hard to swallow is the succession of world leaders led by my own Prime Minister David Cameron

AS someone who has earned a fair few quid out of selling memberships to porn sites on line ~ mostly softcore lol ~ you might be surprised that I’m all for the ISP opt out… For those not following the news, the idea is new customers signing up for broadband on any of the big four providers can opt out

JOHN LENNON was the radical, revolutionary Beatle who made New York his home. And now through his soul mate, wife and lover Yoko Ono, he sends a message of support and “smile” of approval to the Wall Street protesters… Lennon said living in NYC was the happiest time of his life. The city that never sleeps embraced him and he

HARDER…Faster…Deeper… Nope I haven’t turned this blog into some kind of sex education site lol, rather I’m giving web space to a new and extremely provocative and reasonably “sexy” poster campaign from a youth wing of the UK Conservative Party… [scroll down if ya want see it ALL now lol] The Young Briton’s Foundation is pretty much what you’d expect

I was looking back over my recent Twitter timeline and found a reference to a Freedom of Information request. I copied the pdf link but for the life of me I can’t remember who posted it so apologies to them for “stealing your thunder…” In a nutshell the matter refers to the Metropolitan Police and items confiscated from people attending

AS a kid I dreamed of being a reporter and if I couldn’t do that the next best thing for me was a job as a war photographer… This is a quick post praising the work of these amazing people ~ many of whom risk life and limb to get the photo that gets the truth out… Here’s an excellent

WITH the Occupy Wall Street movement showing no signs of slowing ~ if anything the the world is waking up and listening ~ the protest is about to go global… And with that groundswell of support comes the arrival of the mainstream media and the casting of its fickle spotlight on the brave band of protesters who are shining a

SO was the stock market trader Alessio Rastani who appeared on the BBC claiming Goldman Sachs ruled the world really a cruel hoax..? To be honest I don’t really care if he was one of the famous Yes Men (great movie btw) ~ what this guy actually said is sadly all too true, particularly when you look at Obama’s Whitehouse…

BRUTALITY against peaceful protesters demonstrating in a public square usually garners sound bites of condemnation from leaders of free democracies. The deafening silence at the brutal atrocities carried out by many of New York’s finest speaks volumes… A seemingly out of control police force waded into Wall Street this weekend, bludgeoning, spraying mace into the eyes of defenceless young women

SCREWED ~ “we are all totally screwed” I think is the phrase the experts are desperately trying not to use as they pop up on our TVs and in our newspapers… As our financiers, politicians and experts “stare down the barrel” of economic collapse, no one it seems has any idea what to do. Except perhaps the founders of the

TROY DAVIS was murdered last night by lethal injection. He became just another blood soaked statistic on the long long list of American prisoners killed by a justice system that shows no sign of giving up its barbaric blood lust… A campaign calling for his case to be reinvestigated drew support from celebrities, former president Jimmy Carter, a senior FBI

AUSTERITY seems to be flying over the heads of the art world judging by the latest loony toons style “art-work” that has cost a staggering half a million quid. But the so called “Nowhere Island” is just the tip of the iceberg of an even more bonkers “arty wing” of the Cultural Olympiad… But first to the symbolic pile of