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So much for Objective Journalism From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (1 day old)

My writing hero is Hunter S Thompson. Like many other people who scratch a living out of writing, I admired his total balls-out devotion to telling the truth. At least the truth that he saw. Not m… more

'Tis the season to be made redundant From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (1 day old)

So this is Christmas. Well it self-evidently is not, but my generous employers can't help themselves and are falling over each other to be the first to dish out the P45s. Yes. It's the Annua… more

It just NEVER occurred to him... From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (7 days old)

Drugs and schools. A marriage made in heaven. I was left wide-eyed in wonderment last night watching the TV news to first see some Greasy Government Suit moaning on that he'd lost all confidence in… more

A Winter's tale From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (12 days old)

There was a time and it was not so very long ago when I would really look forward to the winter. I loved the long dark nights and the long dark overcoats. To me, it always resonated with someth… more

John the Kangaroo is gonna mess with Sue From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (15 days old)

Well, now I just feel STUPID. For quite a few years, I played slide in a blues duo and every gig we did, we did Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man. And every time we did it, I always thought the … more

Gone a bit gray, Redleader From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (22 days old)

Had a quite surreal experience this evening while getting cash out the ATM at the local Strangebury's. Silhouetted against orange sodium lights of the high street, I saw the unmistakable outline of… more

Well. That's another 60 quid down the toilet From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (22 days old)

Woe, woe and thrice freaking WOE! Just handed over 60 hard-earned pounds to the local "computer shop" to pay them to kill off a Windows-attacking virus that no amount of AVG scrubbing would clean. … more

Clever people writing for stupid people From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (25 days old)

I think I wish I had as much energy as almost everyone else on the internet to ACTUALLY care about Jan Moir, and, locally, about the hot fuss about the peculiar "Blogger's Oath." But then I also th… more

The Will to Lose, posh schools and poor boys' perverts From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (39 days old)

I've got to stop following the England cricket team on the telly. I find it a uniquely dispiriting experience. Watching the same players make the same mistakes over and over (ha) again is real… more

The day my pad went mad From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (43 days old)

My home seems to have turned into an irresistible magnet for malevolent technology gremlins. Anything that depends on electricity to function appears to be doomed. Their evil spell is all over e… more

Doom work boredom grief and fainting in coils From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (47 days old)

I wake with a start like a vampire at sunset remembering I'm dead and this stake in my heart may yet turn me to dust but you never heard a single word i said … more

Bloody peasants From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (49 days old)

It always astonishes me how many forelock-tugging "squire knows best" Daily Mail-reading morons there are out there. You should see them exploding on the Mail website in over-excited fury at the Li… more

Well that was a k-k-krazy week From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (53 days old)

All I can say is, I'm glad to see the back of it. No, really. That IS ALL I can say. All I can manage to come up with is a tired cliche that is so familiar it's almost invisible. For I've… more

NEVER forget they are watching ME From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (61 days old)

Overlooked. Not in the sense of being left out or ignored. Just - overlooked - as in, there's nowhere on this planet I can go for a single second without someone LOOKING at me, seeing me, watching… more

Money, that's what I want From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (61 days old)

It seems so obvious now. The only way out of this is MONEY. I've never been a big fan of the pursuit of it before. Which probably explains perfectly why I NEED IT NOW! Any suggestions? … more

Bank Holiday DOOM From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (74 days old)

So here we go, flying headlong into the last bank holiday before X Mass, unless I've missed something and the uniquely sinister Lord Mandelson has unilaterally declared Halloween a public holiday too.… more

Quote of the year in the story of the year From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (75 days old)

Mr Simpkins, of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, said: 'The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter." More here. … more

About time for a change... From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (77 days old)

In so many ways. I used to maintain this blog with an almost religious fervour - but without all the chanting, incense and Deity-ridden nonsense, obviously. But as with so many things, I lapsed,… more

And that's interesting, too From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (77 days old)

Barack Obama has sent me an email. An actual, proper email - not just some crap from "The Whitehouse," on no. It's a response to my email to him about the extradition of asperger syndrome suffer… more

That's interesting From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (78 days old)

The venomous "Crime and Justice" campaign "blog" that goads the Madeleine McCann family no longer exists. Aw shame. Boo-hoo. :))… more

Strangebury's rides again From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (85 days old)

Well, yes...and here we go again. Once again standing in a small queue at my Sainsbury's Local, I saw another adult humiliated by check-out staff. This time the staff member in question had the … more

Free speech? Don't make me laugh From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (86 days old)

http://crimeandjustice.blog.co.uk/ Anyone else read this piece of poison on this site? The post at the top of the queue looks like the site is a defence of the Madeleine McCann family. As you re… more

Dear Mr President... From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (101 days old)

I wrote this letter to the White House last week and so far, my mate Barack ain't replied. RE: Extradition of Gary McKinnon. I am the father of an Asperger's Syndrome son. Bringing him up in… more

BANNED - from buying a box of matches From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (111 days old)

Standing in the small queue at my local Strangebury's tonight, I saw something happen that was a defining moment for me as to how ludicrous "things" have become. There was a man right in front of m… more

All right now From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (115 days old)

I love Hendrix and this is the best guitar sound in the world, but utterly unachievable by any one like me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zp1zVVDAQ Then I I thought this was the nearest to a per… more

Massive relief for the redleader clan From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (139 days old)

Returned from hospital earlier this evening after having met consultant re Deaf Star son's brain scans from the dreaded MRI machine. The latest test results show that the unexplained "white matter"… more

Leave me alone From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (141 days old)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X6gaYqZFKE Geddit? Leave me alone, please leave me alone, GOD! leave me alone, just leave me alone, won't you leave me alone, please leave me alone, just leave me… more

Wild nights in Liverpool 25 years ago From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (154 days old)

Last Friday I dived over the water to the Big City to see an exhibition of photographs taken in the early 80s by a dear friend of mine, and staged at The National Conservation Centre in Liverpool. … more

Literally dead, almost From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (171 days old)

This morning, I was found literally dead. It was Cousin Trevor, in the library, with the bottle of brandy. It really was. After a surprisingly good meal at a local hotel with Rubychoo's rellies,… more

When your heart is weak, gonna pick the lock on it From redleader in Red Leader: Enemy activity has been slight (174 days old)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8Ysa-RD0U Another Youtube song but this time, it means something. This is the song of me and Rubychoo. All the time I was married to someone else, this lyric … more