Impolitic: why Glasgow needs a Mayor like Boris Johnson
It's important, one feels, to find out what's happening in the world.
Andy Bollen
I've been writing comedy for BBC radio and TV since my first sketch on Pulp Video in 1995. Since then, I've written for Only an Excuse? Chewin the Fat, Karen Dunbar, Watson's Wind Up, Off the Ball, Sabotage, Naked Radio, and Five Live comedy shows. In print, I've contributed to various papers including the Sunday Mail, Scotland on Sunday and the New York Times. In a previous life I was a drummer and unbelievably toured with Nirvana. I kept a diary and my book Nirvana: A Tour Diary came out in Spring 2013. I've also finished a book called One Night in May: The Birth of Oasis, and I'm working on another book about music and weather called Only an Northern Song. I'm also writing a spoof political memoir.
I've been writing comedy for BBC radio and TV since my first sketch on Pulp Video in 1995. Since then, I've written for Only an Excuse? Chewin the Fat, Karen Dunbar, Watson's Wind Up, Off the Ball, Sabotage, Naked Radio, and Five Live comedy shows. In print, I've contributed to various papers including the Sunday Mail, Scotland on Sunday and the New York Times. In a previous life I was a drummer and unbelievably toured with Nirvana. I kept a diary and my book Nirvana: A Tour Diary came out in Spring 2013. I've also finished a book called One Night in May: The Birth of Oasis, and I'm working on another book about music and weather called Only an Northern Song. I'm also writing a spoof political memoir.
It's important, one feels, to find out what's happening in the world.
He's got on his big three wheeler bogie contraption, The Harley with stabilisers, the trike, whatever it's called and rode off into the sunset.
We are finally entering what a man with a red nose who hailed from Govan famously called squeaky bum time. It's tight. The world's media have descended upon Scotland.
Every university needs a decent IT guy. Someone who shakes their head at you and says 'yeah, like…switch it off and on again.' I've nothing against Snowden being rector, (on Thursday, Time Magazine, named him in this year's 100 most influential people in the world, alongside Beyonce and Bill Clinton) despite it being illegal to set foot in the UK, I was hoping he'd show up.
I was OK; I had an Adventure Kit and every night I would be in hiding, under the blankets, my flask full of water and a knife in case the Nazis came to Airdrie.
Truman, like Lord Robertson, knew how the system worked, understood the mechanisms of government, the kind of rhetoric that made Washington tick and the kind language the mass media would notice.
The women took centre stage this week. The top brass were out on parade and all over the TV. All performing for the cameras, starting cat fights, going crazy at each other, both sending the other up the pole, tearing strips off each other and leaving us all aghast.
I wouldn't either if I was him. Bowie has earned the right to make the choice of showing up at the Brits and to say what he wants. That includes dipping his pop toe into the independence debate by pleading, 'Scotland, stay with us'.
In a rare show of strength, they categorically ruled out a future UK government joining a currency union with an independent Scotland. Osborne went as far as to threaten: "If Scotland walks away from the UK, it's also walking away from the pound."
Maybe I've been inspired by the Winter Olympics? I say cue the Ski Sunday music…and ACTION!!!
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