Month: April 2010

Being born the year Thatcher became Prime Minister of Britain, I can’t remember a time the Conservatives (Torys) were popular in Scotland. To this day Thatcher is a dirty word up here, particularly where I live. Frankie Boyle summed up the hatred for this Woman (and party) up here when he was talking about the … Read more

I really have come to hate April 1st over the last few years. Perhaps I was more gullible as a child, perhaps people are just being lazier with their April fools jokes, or perhaps we’ve been here so many times before that we have mentally prepared not to believe anything we read. I don’t know. … Read more