Mystic Maurice

Mystic Maurice

Aries


Columns: The Alternative Oxford English Dictionary

Pooskers... that is, buskers who are so bad you'd give them money just to shut up. Whether it is a strange bereted man wearing a fleece that looks like some of the weaker- stomached pedestrians have vomited on him, playing a random selection of notes on a rather piddling flute, adding reverb and calling it music, or a whole gang of slickly-coiffured teddy boys thumping away at double basses and singing the theme tune to Happy Days, they're all inevitably shite. However, on the other side of the street will be a collection of......

Columns: Mummy, why?

Have any members of the A Team ever actually been shot?


Columns: The Krapton Factor

Right, hands up, who just farted. We won't start until the culprit steps forward. Oh, it was you, was it? I might have bloody known...

Columns: Spot the difference


Columns: Marathon woman

Weeks to go 11, 8st 4 (totally inexplicable), miles run 17 (unimpressive), sponsorship running total £84.50

Columns: Newsfight!

So, after twenty-five years of tax increases being burdened with the same popular appeal that accompanies indiscretions in Clapham Common, Labour has actually embarked upon this uncharted governmental policy. It seems possible that public services, including universities and police, services that affect all strata of society, might be prioritised for the first time in a while. ...


Columns: Memoirs of a nutter

I'm locked in a theatre. The walls are black; the people are tired, stress lines their faces. They warn us: there could be glass; there could be danger, and the caffeine levels in our blood are reaching nuclear levels. This week I am far from St Ignatius. Things Are Very Bad. And yet my dedication to you knows no bounds. God, I'm good....