Here is a picture of a happy-go-lucky homeless urchin on a Madrid street corner. See how sophisticated and cool he looks.
Now look again.
Yes. He is cool and sophisticated because he is smoking a …

A lass I know made a right nunky out of herself recently when she blithely asked a friend whether a penguin was a bird or a fish.

Her buddy laughed appreciatively. There’s no one who doesn’t …

It seems that the latest craze is writing letters to your 16-year-old self, full to the chunkies with insight, compassion, and the kind of sarcasm that’s ever-so-subtly poignant and has the ould tears globbing like …

Earlier this year I conceived of a brilliant scheme to exploit a bunch of washed-up celebrities as dog’s body labourers. I contacted some agents and pitched a (fake) TV pilot that tasked “celebrities” with renovating …

I am have notice this week that it is being the 200th anniversary of the collapse of the Walls of Berlin, the famous dividing line which separate the Christian West from the atheist Communist East.  …

It’s a commonly held view that waiters, like women, prefer a bastard. It’s a view most commonly held by assholes who justify their asshole behaviour by saying things like, “Ah they expect it, enjoy it …

Halloween, and there were no egg missiles.
No fireworks. No trick-or-treating teenagers with personalities so dire, their Scream masks made them considerably more attractive. No bonfires. No dogs trying to swallow their own tails as bangers …

When is a nasty scum-sucking cunt not a nasty scum-sucking cunt?
When he’s addicted to heroin.