Invited by Tony Blair, the Iraq national team is apparently playing a British parliamentary XI tomorrow and then heading up the M1 to West Brom to take on that well-known Midlands outfit, Trinidad and Tobago. The Spanish authorities have refused them visas, presumably out of political spite, and Mr Bush has not replied to their…
A story from a while back about Barcelona’s Baja Beach Club suggesting customers implant chips under their skin to facilitate entry and billing is now doing the rounds of the Anglosphere. There’s a good piece over at The Register, but I don’t see what the fuss is about: Baja’s average female client already has a…
The government has just announced that the minimum wage is to be increased to slightly less than even most illegals are earning, and the usual crazies are up in arms about this betrayal. Here, from the edition of Ideal published August 17th 1936 is something that would have been closer to their hearts: In Barcelona,…
OK, you know that Trevor isn’t so damn clever, but am I really the only blogger in the world who reads books as opposed to rereading them? (By the way, I did enjoy rehearing the MIDI of My Love She’s But a Jug of Lassi Yet, to which Q Pheevr links.)
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