Yorkshire Bitter

I’d always thought there was something strange in the water in Howden, going by the foul-tasting coffee from the vending machine where I worked until just recently.
I wonder if it can be blamed for two resignations on points of principle within a week in Howden. The first was my own, which of course is a […]

I’d just like to introduce a new contributor to the blog, Paul Gardner, who is a fellow journalist and neighbour.
If  anyone else with a Yorkshire connection (past or present) would like to contribute to the blog, please let me know. You don’t need to be a professional writer and you certainly don’t have to agree […]

Ho hum, over five months since the last entry. It’s not like there hasn’t been plenty of material to talk about either, like the developments around that dreadful extended family in Dewsbury. You know the ones I mean.
But yours truly has just been too busy on other projects for a long time. Now, finally, I […]

School was never like this in my day. All this talk of “the happiest days of your lives” was a sick joke to me.
But then we didn’t have teachers like Sarah Green of Stockport. The Manchester Evening News reports: “Sarah Green was asked to stay away from Stockport Grammar after her bosses discovered that she […]

If the teacher jailed over the name of a teddy bear issue wasn’t so deadly serious, I’d have found it hilarious.
The sheer nonsense of her being charged in the first place, followed by the mob bussed in to wave machetes and call for her execution, is so farcical that it makes the mocking of religious […]

The Environment Agency says there is a massive tidal surge along the East Coast, from North Yorkshire all the way down to Kent, warning of “extreme danger to life and property”.
It’s looking like our neck of the woods is going to be OK (I bloody hope so anyway, as I don’t have any sandbags) but […]

More trash through my letterbox, this time from a firm playing emotional blackmail by featuring a photo of a crying blonde child (looking not unlike poor little Madeleine McCann) and the words “Will you reject me too?”
Well, yes I will actually, since there is no sign of a registered charity number on the leaflet and […]

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of The Darwin Awards but it’s a website dedicated to stupid people who selflessly remove themselves from the human gene pool by dying in particularly stupid ways, e.g. juggling with live hand grenades.
Selby now has its very own candidate, according to the York Press, which reports on a […]