88 pages into Gravity's Rainbow and I had to gave up, life really is too short. I'm sure there's genius in there somewhere but I could not locate it. As always, on to the next...

The problem with right wing politics is at some point working class people want to see the jam you’ve been promising them tomorrow.

Don’t care how late to the party I am, Slow Horses really is rather excellent.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

In today’s political climate it’s becoming near impossible to differentiate real news from satire on this day of all days.

Say hello to Billy for me.

I’m seriously lagging behind this year so far. Currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces which can apply to so many areas of my life right now.

This was my year in books, how was yours?

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

Whenever I think of Ozzy I think not of the world renown, hedonistic rock star and more the man strolling about his palatial LA home, moaning about the cat and/or dog defecation in the kitchen in the broadest of Birmingham accents. A genuine legend, RIP.

It all amounts to nothing if together we don’t stand…

When you do pay day correctly

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

Me too although I find it even more impressive reading it as an adult and marvelling at how Salinger captured the adolescent perspective so well.

The Catcher in the Rye.

Too big to rig.

Naturally, the video contains a punctuation error.

A much underrated beer that is too.

It’s almost as though this mysterious, indigenous British workforce that were apparently desperate to take on jobs previously given to ‘immigrants’ never actually existed.

Drop me a line if you need any help mate. Not saying I can help but will endeavour to if you need it.