As the Chinese philosopher Confucius once remarked: “Ability will never catch up with the demand for it” – an observation pertinent for many English cricket fans and sages today. As an avid English cricket fan the two results in Dubai and Abu Dhabi over the last two weeks have been nothing short of catastrophic. As… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
It was a case of a drowsy giant being stung by an ever-dangerous snake at Dubai’s International Cricket Stadium this week. And that is not to cast a serpentine aspersion on the Pakistani’s; it is simply a metaphor designed to explicate the nature of the unpredictable beast. The combination of Pakistan’s mercurial cricketing talent and… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
The convocation was summoned by Terry Dorksen, CEO of Dorkbus, and Adbul Dhorkha Prime Minister of Dorking 7000. They both sat gawking at the fallow wall opposite their table, which was perched at the front of the room with a panoramic view of the world’s media dorks. They had been assembled for a press conference… [Read more…]
January 21, 2011
Man-flu, Oh! man-flu, wherefore art thou man-flu? A cold by any other name would be just as snotty. But for the pestilent shame of scorn and mockery From those wenches of disreputable disposition Do you assign yourself this epithet of false agony
January 19, 2011
Ricky Gervais has caused outrage in the gossip community of LA’s finest with his no-holds-barred approach to hosting the 68th Golden Globe awards ceremony. The outspoken Brit’s performance has divided Hollywood A-listers and celeb commentators alike. Robert De Niro and Alec Baldwin were on the verge of tears with laughter throughout Gervias’ routines, while Messers… [Read more…]
January 14, 2011
I haven’t questioned the fundamental basis of humanism more since I read Franz Kafka’s Metapmorphosis than when I recently finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The ash covered no-mans-land of McCarthy’s novel reduces the very essence of human living to one of barbaric animalism where only the depraved survive. This shocking reduction of the human condition… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
The contemporary world of television advertising is often as illogical as the circumference of a pringle pot. Just in the way the average hand is too big to reach the pringles at the bottom, the average, rational human being cannot understand the adverts he is witnessing on the box. On my winter holidays in 2010… [Read more…]
January 2, 2011
The natural ambiguity which subcutaneously pervades life’s rough skin is surely nowhere more manifest than the desultory scenes of a new years eve gathering. The contrived euphoria after the clock strikes the same hour it does 364 times elsewhere during the earth’s solar rotation is possibly one of the most perfidiously nauseating experiences someone with… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
So England retain the Ashes in Australia for the first time in 24 years. Amid heroic performances throughout the series from Alistair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Jonathon Trott and Co., there has been one constant, insatiable vehicle of support – the Barmy Army. Of course, the players won the series, and they will be rightly heralded… [Read more…]
December 15, 2010
Supposedly there is nothing stronger than the human heart. Contrary to this tremendously sickening metaphor however there is something stronger. Namely the hand, arm and mind of the person who can reach into the chest, and tear the symbol of human love asunder, slice all its straggling sinews, and render it a deadened irreparable heap of something… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
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