So what was the most important news story of the week? Was it Nicki Minaj saying the Covid jab gave her cousin a bad case of swollen testicles? The authorities in Trinidad and Tobago went through their files and sure enough, it turned out the story was a load of…
Those of you in the UK might already know of a breakfast show called Good Morning Britain. It's shown on ITV from Monday to Friday. Those of you who don't know it, be thankful for small mercies. The show is essentially clickbait television. Pretty much everything about it is designed…
Quite a few years ago, there was a spell of bad weather in the UK that flooded a biscuit making factory in the north east of England, putting them out of action. Soon afterwards, people started complaining they were finding it difficult to obtain ginger nut biscuits, of all things.…
You can usually tell when the dance music press are looking for that exclusive interview with someone about their latest project. They start being extremely supine, writing only the nicest things and leaving out bits that the artist might get a teeny bit upset about. This is something you can…
Oh, how I do enjoy mocking Mixmag, the dance music magazine that covers a 24/7 culture - but only during office hours. Yet I also admit to being baffled how their operation continues to run without editors. Proofreading material before it's published is an important job. It ensures that everything…
You can tell it's a Saturday. Not just because there's football on later, not even just because there's even more rubbish on TV tonight than normal. No, it's because Mixmag are serving up the usual dose of old articles on their social media. Every weekend is the same. Having journalists…
Back on April 15th, Mixmag - yes, that tomb of accuracy and balanced reporting - claimed that unless the Government introduced Covid insurance for festivals, they would start to cancel en masse "within days. That's their words, not mine. Since then, little has happened. The Government has not introduced such…
I never thought it would fall down to me, of all people, to defend the so-called superstar DJs in dance music. Yet I strangely feel the need to, given how the dance music press has decided to turn against the very people they normally venerate. Clean Scene have released a…
Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did another one of his press conferences. It followed the usual format. Johnson waffled on for a bit about something he knew next to nothing about, then journalists got to ask questions that he wouldn't answer. This week, he was mostly telling…
Clickbait is as much part of the online universe these days as Google and cat memes. I try to avoid doing this, as I think there's enough of it around already. I do, at least, try to deliver on the increasingly long headlines of my blog posts - a recent,…