Teeth getting knocked out. Chins being split. Eyes lost. Fractured ankles being played on. Brains being dulled. Or were they dull already? I’m not sure. As an Englishman who played hockey and rugby I can’t believe the level of personal danger posed by playing shinty. Its unbelievable to me that safety kit is not used [...]
It’s early texting, isn’t it? Otherwise we’d have been te’cks’ting.
The funniest thing in the fantastically thoroughly stage-managed finale at the Beiing Olympics came as the platform party left the central podium, after handing over the Olympic flag for London 2012 to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Symmetry ruled. The party left in pairs. The shaggy humourist stuck both hands in his pockets. This [...]
Did you hear the interview Jacques Rogge of the IOC gave the BBC? He said: ‘a good organiser is a hjmbe organiser. A good organiser is an organiser who listens. The nightmare is an organiser who says “I’ll do it my way” ‘. He seemed concerned about the UK’s lowering of expectations for the 2012 [...]
World record sprinter and in-house entertainer - all before he crossed the line - Usain Bolt’s gold for Jamaica in the Men’s 100 metres was one for the history books. Babies in Jamaica will be jumping out of their prams to start sprinting. (And never mind BBC News - Wikipedia has his World Record up [...]
A Scottish Ambulance service worker has just been jailed for four months at Edinburgh Sherriff Court by Sherriff Andrew Lothian who described his actions as ‘one of the grossest breaches of trust possible’. When a drunk woman patient lay half-naked in the back of his ambulance, Scott Jenkins not only made lewd remarks but crouched [...]
BBC commentator on Montell Douglas’s heat in the Women’s 100 meters: ‘She’s the fastest loser, which is good news’. You know what he means but you still have to laugh.
Henry McLeish is reported to be on the brink of agreeing to run as the Labour candidate in the forthcoming Westminster by-election at Glenrothes in Fife. What is he thinking of? He’s popular in the constituency, it’s not inconceivable that he just might win - but why bother? The mood of the time and the [...]
There was national horror yesterday at the news that Glasgow’s Stobhill Hospital left a dead man on view in a ward for seven hours to great distress among other patients who were even served meals during the period. While this is partly a management failure through a poor culture of care, it is a human [...]
Can’t quite get it that China delivered a breathtaking opening ceremony, can we? We nit-pick to lessen their achievement, maybe to reduce the inevitable gap between this and the kitsch we’re sure to go for in 2012. Let’s hear it for massed Morris dancers. So - the footprints in the sky were computer [...]
