The Plastic Mancunian

My beloved country has gone mad. The rest of the world probably regards Britain as a bit of a weird place most of the time but for the pa...

Captain Paranoia is perched on my shoulder. He has been listening to the government, watching the news and reading the tabloids. He has agr...

Way back in the summer of 2008 I wrote a post about the world’s most difficult question. That question was: “How do I look in this?” I a...

It’s been a while since I had a go at a meme from Sunday Stealing so here goes with this week’s effort. Sadly it’s quite a big one. Here ...

This blog has reached two milestones. Firstly, in March, it was the 3rd anniversary of the creation of the Plastic Mancunian – a series ...

Allow me to introduce you to another Mancunian– a man named Karl Pilkington. I don’t know him personally. Ricky Gervais, the brains beh...

Over the years, artists have released songs that have mass appeal and it is these songs that we hear on the radio over and over again. Su...