Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

There was an eye-catching headline on the Argus website about how ‘Salaries in affluent Brighton are £3000 below average‘.  It also says that salaries in Crawley have dropped £6,000 in the year.  And its all rubbish.

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I'm sure they will play well, and the songs will sound good, but its not really The Jam without Paul Weller is it? 

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This story from the Brighton Argus must be a gift to sub-editors or topical news quiz gag-writers. As a fine practical demonstration of just one of the many reasons why I am not employed as a gag-writer on a topical news quiz I can’t find a witty and hilarious joke to make - but […]

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Two headlines from the Argus this week:
Tuesday 29th May:
Brighton among most secure places in Britain
Wednesday 30th May:
Police officer’s car stolen - from police station
Slightly spoiled by the fact that, when you actually read the second story it is not about Brighton but Arundel. Even so, the first story does have Sussex Police boasting that […]

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One of the many advantages of living in Crawley is that it is halfway between London and Brighton. The trip from London to Brighton is a popular one for motoring events, so it is not unusual to see, for example, whole fleets of minis or VW Combis going through town if the owners’ group […]

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There were two interesting articles in the papers today, which I will attempt to clumsily relate to each other.
The first was Ashley Seager in the Guardian, arguing that we need a land tax to replace council tax and possibly allow reductions in VAT as well, and the second was in the Argus: a story about […]

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Is he just too good to be true? 

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I would like to give a shout out, as I believe youngsters like him would have it, to my colleague Danivon, who would easily be Crawley’s best blogger if only he would pull his finger out, stop having a full and active social life and write more.
This week he has written an amusing fisk of […]

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I like Brighton. I enjoy visiting the place. But knowing that I am not welcome in one of its clubs, even though I probably wouldn’t go there anyway, just because of where I live, makes me like the place just a little less.
Its not right that I should feel a little bit more hostile to […]

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The Creation nightclub in Brighton has had a chequered past with more financial crises than Crawley Town FC, but a year ago it was bought up by a company called Luminar, who own many other nightclubs - including the Liquid club next to Crawley station…
I would threaten to boycott the Liquid club until Creation reverses […]

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