Category Postcards from Palookaville

America is a great country.  Where else could I turn on the television this week and witness a serious debate about whether the televising of the Oscars last Sunday had adversely affected attendance at Nascar races that day?  It is…

Ah, yes.  Pelagius.  Now which nation has to take responsibility for him?

Ah, yes.  Pelagius.  Now which nation has to take responsibility for him?

Just to remind everyone that today is St David’s Day; though I can’t remember of what or of where he’s the patron saint.  I have vague recollections of Max Boyce and Druids in golden wellies, and a most satisfying and…

Just to remind everyone that today is St David’s Day; though I can’t remember of what or of where he’s the patron saint.  I have vague recollections of Max Boyce and Druids in golden wellies, and a most satisfying and…

What can we learn from PCE? Difficult to comment on something which isn’t clearly defined but here’s a few things:

What can we learn from PCE? Difficult to comment on something which isn’t clearly defined but here’s a few things:

Mississippi was great fun.  Getting to meet `Nate-Dog’ and `The Gnome’ and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure.  And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In…

Mississippi was great fun.  Getting to meet `Nate-Dog’ and `The Gnome’ and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure.  And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In…

It’s official.  The American Psychological Association has found that the sexualisation of girls and young women is harmful.  Yes indeedy — now we know that the portrayal of women as sex objects is not a good thing.  Incredible, I know,…