The Plastic Mancunian

Usually when I am on a flight, I hear from the captain and the flight crew during the course of the flight. These fine people speak to...

"Look how GREAT I am!" It’s that time of the year when I take a close look at the world of celebrity. As a rule, I hate the...

Today’s song is Incommunicado by Marillion. The song is about fame, specifically somebody who wants to be famous but isn’t too hap...

Today I’m going to talk about a subject that really irks me and has made me rant a lot over the years. The idea comes from a comedian ...

I have stopped trying to give up ranting as a New Year’s resolution because usually, within a day, I have exploded when confronted...

I know myself completely and there is no human being on the planet that is exactly the same as I am. At the time of writing, the p...

I sometimes wonder why people feel they have the right to cause offence and be just downright nasty. If I offend people, usually by a...

Do you mind if I have a good rant? Well, I don’t care – I’m going to have one anyway. At the end of every year, I watch a TV progr...

The other night, I caught the Nutty Bus for the first time for a couple of years. The Nutty Bus is basically the late night bus servici...

On Friday somebody genuinely asked me: “What planet are you from?” There was a valid reason for the question and it made me realise somethin...