Luis Suarez of Uruguay is football’s gift to those cynical scribes always looking for a pun or two to liven up their copy. Yours truly…
Month: June 2014
The dog days of August are fast approaching, a time when the mind turns to whimsical thoughts to take to the beach. One that I…
I wouldn’t cross the street to hear Dolly Parton sing – let alone wade through the mud of Glastonbury for the privilege – but I’d…
If the good people of Brazil are in a state of stupefaction after seeing the national side drubbed 7-1 by Germany in the World Cup…
Try as I might, I just can’t get the hang of Game of Thrones. M, I’m relieved to say, is in the same boat. We’ve…
‘Joy in Brazil as World Cup Opens’ ‘Riots in Brazil as World Cup Opens’ Such headlines – or variations on them – appeared in British…
So far, so good. I’ve managed, by successive acts of sheer lack of will, not to watch a single kick of the football World Cup…
News that President Obama is sending 300 military ‘advisers’ to help train the Iraqi army stirred a few echoes in the memory – and I…
An American reader – yes, Random Rants is truly a global enterprise – has asked why I haven’t bothered to write about the recent European…