From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Blingkinis!

June 29, 2011

What’s a blingkini? It’s a bikini with all stuff stuck to it. What do I think about blingkinis? Read today’s Sun to find out. What’s that smell? It’s the smell of opinions. Blingkini related opinions.

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RIP Brian Haw

June 19, 2011

    Brian Haw, the bloke who’s been protesting outside Parliament for the past 10 years, has died. Five years ago I spent a bit of time with him for a documentary I was making for the BBC. He was a curious and charming and eccentric fellow. Here is a clip of him and me in [...]

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The Sun

June 16, 2011

  I did a column in today’s edition of The Sun (Britain’s top selling paper). I was filling in for none other than the legendary Kelvin MacKenzie who was on holiday. Probably shouting at a waiter I’d imagine. Full article (scanned) here.

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Et tu, Wayne?

June 7, 2011

Going bald sucks. Especially when public figures like Wayne Rooney jump ship and get hair transplants to hide their shame. I wrote about this in today’s Guardian. I even sent them a grotesque ariel view of my head. Click here to read the piece. Brace yourselves for the horror.

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Do I Not Like That?!

June 6, 2011

Remember that Graham Taylor documentary when he did all the swearing and effed up qualification to the 1994 World Cup? Awesome wasn’t it? And you thought it was a devious stitch up by unscrupulous TV types, right? Me too. But it turns out he was complicit in the whole daft endeavour. I know this because Four [...]

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Ad memoirs

June 6, 2011

Adman Sir John Hegarty has written a memoir about his time in the ad game. The Independent asked me to compare and contrast it with a bunch of other memoirs by ad folks. I’d read them all when I was writing my own ‘funny and fascinating’ (Daily Telegraph) book about advertising, which was called Get [...]

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