Liverpool is about to enter a new era in paying for bus and train travel. Liverpool is about to enter the era of the Walrus.
Month: September 2012
When true love is like being on heroin
People have pre-conceived ideas about Megan Stammers and Jeremy Forrest. She was the 15 year old schoolgirl and he was the 30 year old maths
Wot no pirate radio for Liverpool?
Coming from London, a city within which it is perfectly normal for over 60% of the radio stations available to be unlicensed, my move to
A very lucky escape
How’s this for the luckiest escape ever. Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver broke through the guardrail, on the
The saddest Radio Caroline legacy = the anorak
One of the saddest legacies of the offshore pop pirates of 50 years ago is the radio enthusiast known as an ‘anorak’. Whilst the modern
The long wave goodbye to Long Wave
The BBC operates an outlet of Radio 4 on 198kHz Long Wave. In the recent cut-back announcements, mention was made of running the facility down.
Nick Grimshaw isn’t too grim
So then. After a week of Scott Mills holding the fort, Monday arrived and at 6:30 in the morning #teamgrimmy took the reins trying to
Culling the over 30s from Radio 1
The axing of Chris Moyles from the breakfast show came as a response to the need to attract a younger audience. BBC Radio 1‘s remit
They thought they saw meteorites
Catastrophe. What a catastrophe. One of our supply ships on its way into this planet’s atmosphere had to be blown-up last night. It had been
Being 19 years old forever
I have a theory about being 19 years old. My theory is that at 19 one is in one’s prime with regard to taking a
Things are looking up
So then. You are feeling shut in and all stressed. You decide to leave your office and take some air. You look up and are
Thatcher the milk snatcher
The hatred for Margaret Thatcher in Liverpool continues to this day. It’s hilarious. Talking to anybody in their 50s or above, it’s not long before
Post traumatic breakfast show syndrome
Arthur Scargill. Now there’s a name from the past. But, I seem to recall reading somewhere, ages and ages ago, that when the miners’ strike
No, you’re an idiot!
An idiot spies a letter lying on his doormat. It says on the envelope “DO NOT BEND.” The idiot spends the next 2 hours trying to
The long non-song after a few songs
Many years ago before the mp3 was invented and the ability to ‘segue’ songs (play them one after the other with no silence inbetween) became
Instant Karma’s going to get ya
What we really need is plenty more of these high curbs in the path of the thieves and robbers in this world… ~ ~ There’s plenty more,
The Chris Moyles Show: gone but not forgotten
So, that’s it then. The era of ‘The Chris Moyles Show‘ being the Radio 1 breakfast show is now a fixed point in history. The
The Innocence of Muslims
So let me get this right. I need to fully understand it. Somebody makes a crap movie that insults the prophet Muhammad and depicts Islamic extremists
Shhh! – The Sun’s gone all quiet
Mercury, Venus & Earth all in front of the Sun, ok? Imagine that you are a microbe living on a chicken. Imagine that chicken is
The Ross Revenge is MY Precious
Radio anoraks are dangerous things. Especially the old ones. Now then, a typical old style radio anorak will love and worship any radio station that
Your moral guide
I am a Pat Condell fan. He intermittently places videos on Youtube (here) that only sometimes annoy me, but usually have me saying, “Right on,
Drunks are neither fun nor funny
I was at a meeting the other day, maybe the sixth and last of a number we had all had together. Most of us hadn’t
Chris Moyles: 5 more to go
The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Chris Moyles starts his 5th to last show tomorrow (Monday) at 6:30am. By Friday it’ll all be over
Wot no Fish?
Liverpool still keeps on with its pretence of having Fish and Chips shops when it actually has none. Now then, when I lived in London,
The climate is finally changing
Something interesting is happening in the world of the climate change religion. It seems that politicians are no longer being fooled. Where Obama once led
The first Universal Truth
A lot of people say that Christopher England is from another planet. I’ve no idea how they found out, but hey, humans miss out on
Have you met a time traveller?
So, it has to be asked; How can you tell if somebody is a time traveller from the future? Well, I’m glad you asked. You
Is The X Factor losing its?
You can tell it’s Autumn. The X Factor is on TV. Simon Cowell takes control of Saturday nights from now until 2013, it’s the law.
Obsessives cannot be allowed to scare us
It’s two years ago this week that 43 year old eco-terrorist James J Lee was shot dead in order to help release the three hostages
The ‘special personal attention mail’ folder
My life is sorted. Thanks to some kind people who I didn’t know before going through a folder in my email system called ‘Spam’, my
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