Colonel Irrelevant

I’m a mug for music and films and books. I like to own them and read the bits on the covers and stuff so I tend to buy stuff then transfer it to my iPod or whatever. I can’t remember downloading anything illegal and I don’t recall watching any pirated movies or stuff like that. [...]

Bernie Ecclestone sticking his nose in to the Renault situaion is a joke. Reducing the case to one of race fixing is a sparking case of people missing the point.
In case he can’t remember people get killed and injured in motorsports. Spectators and marshalls and drivers all stand a chance of being injured despite the [...]

Everything is changing here as Summer wanders into a hot and dry and baked-hard memory.
Clouds are more in vogue but blue prevails in a holiday brochure style. Dark comes early, light late and a scent of change in the air.
It is fresher and somehow it feels lighter. Warm clothes are out even when [...]

Journalism is the business of writing stuff to inform people. It is valuable and important to recognise that the basic measure of a successful journalist or website or publication is the trust the audience has.
I have no idea if people read this blog or if you trust what I write. In [...]

There seem to be lots of people protesting about stuff at the moment and lots of discussion about policing and rights and stuff.
In the day, the protesters were targets to be hit. I remember Blair Peach dying and it was shocking at the time but far less shocking than it would be today.
One [...]

It gets a bad press from time to time and I wish they’d get back to fresh grind and manual machines like in the day but I like their sandwiches.
The Spanish big lunch is a killer for an Anglo Saxon so a decent butty is a welcome change from another poor imitation.

In Starbucks and over the air comes The Cult with ’she sells sanctuary’. How good is that?
Starbucks has something of a cult about it (committed fans for one thing and increasing numbers) and it is a sanctuary of sorts as a Brit in a foreign land (how does American chain offer Brit comfort?). Maybe [...]

I keep waking up and realising I’m in Spain which causes a short shock to the system. How long before that feeling stops do you suppose?

I was reading somewhere a debate about multicultural issues and someone expressed the view that they had views about people of a different ethnicity that strongly influenced where he lived and what he did.
It made an interesting read and prompted me to have a think about what encourages thoughts like that.
It seems to [...]