One would doubt that when Robert Allen Zimmerman released this album on 13 January 1964, he had any notion of how often the title would be used and misappropriated over the subsequent decades. Allowing for the rather poor use of syntax and grammar (perhaps the correct use of the latter would have persuaded that English teacher in Wisconsin/Princes Risborough to buy the album thus shifting it higher on...
December 2014
..apart from the length of Ms Flack's ( otherwise referred to as the next Mrs Cheshire's) dresses on Strictly Come Prancing, or for that matter Kristina's... and most definitely Darcey's. Anyway, back to more mundane matters. This week, the report of the ex-Treasury minister Paul Myners on the sale of the Royal Mail by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable concluded that the latter had made, "the...
There has been much press coverage in recent months about wicked landlords, avaricious agents and bullied tenants. The latter's very existence and emotional and financial well-being is wholly dependent upon the capricious nature of the former named parties. Some of the reporting does have merit; some of it is about as accurate and credible as Brother Miliband (the one who got shafted by his sibling),...
In readiness for the big day, the herald angels harked this week, not about the new born king, but about Gideon, I mean George's new stamp duty threshold. Alongside the heavenly hosts, the not so celestial Fourth Estate -dependent upon the colour of their political ichor-proclaimed, "the new boom is here" or for the more melodramatic, "we are all doomed". Step forward Vince and Ed. It is terrific news...
