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Brighton here we come!

September 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Brighton here we come! · Politics

My pass for the party conference in Brighton arrived today, along with a very daunting little book.   The book has page after page of listings of official and fringe events.   Having never been to a conference before I just find it a bit overwhelming: how do you choose what to go to?

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Sadowitz in Brighton

August 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sadowitz in Brighton · Life

Jerry Sadowitz is famously offensive, vulgar, obscene and provocative but he would have had to go into overdrive to give me a bigger shock than the price of a drink at the Komedia!   The place is probably not more expensive than other clubs, its just that I don’t go out very often and even then […]

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Meaningless statistics

December 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Work

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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Jam tomorrow

October 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music

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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Batteries not included

September 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life

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 I’m […]

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What a difference a day makes

May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life

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 […]

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Old Bangers

May 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life

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 is […]

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Ugly Buildings. Again.

January 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Ugly Buildings. Again. · Politics

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 […]

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Fatboy Slim

January 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life

Is he just too good to be true? 

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Double standards

December 8th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life

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 […]

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