While over there on holiday last year as his lovely, Spanish speaking wife was working hard, he went ‘weird’ again and spent his time hatching BCN:MCR, which takes place from Thursday, February 21, at 2022NQ, 20-22 Dale Street, in town.

International Brigade Memorial Plaque
Sunday, 10th February, 11.30 – 12-30
Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square
You are invited to attend a short ceremony to rededicate the plaque in the Town Hall which commemorates the men and women from …

In a refreshing turn of events, one football club, namely Millwall FC, are backing the public’s protests against the Tory’s hospital cuts.

The right wing media have played a blinder with this – even those struggling on benefits themselves have been brainwashed into believing the myth of millions of scroungers enjoying lives of luxury on benefits. Which is factually and actually impossible.

Osborne claims his measures are to make work pay but, given that the majority of people in poverty are in working households, this is a nonsense.

The battle to prevent Urban Splash demolishing Ancoats Dispensary continues:
Tuesday was day 118 on the ancoats picket line and we had to bulldog clip black bin bags to our shed roof to keep the hailstone …

Israel v Palestine eh? What a rivalry that one is! Two sides exchanging blows like prize fighters. I wonder which one will come out on top… proper edge of the seat stuff. But wait, this …

I am no authority on the hardness of a worm’s head, I do know though that my head is harder than a worm’s head and if I was lying on the ground and decided to burrow into the earth without using my arms then it would be very difficult…

From the very good fleetstreetfox.com:
ALLOW me to tell you about a family of scroungers.
Brenda is the 86-year-old matriarch, and the only job she’s done which most of us would recognise as such lasted less than …

We like our sevens here at A Fine Lung and we are always annoyed, so why not combine the two to the benefit of our seven readers?

I have my reservations about how the accumulation of products (in this case clothing) can be regarded as something worth blogging about or indeed can be perceived as cutting edge or creative. I say that, but I still find myself entirely sucked in by it, with great enjoyment.

If anyone wants to study how racism begins, and creeps into the consciousness of an entire nation, they need look no further…

I love time; it’s the best thing we’ve got, mainly because we don’t have enough of it. I hate work, which probably isn’t the worst thing we’ve got, but it does take away our time.

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits,” writes Johnny Helzapopin…

The creatures who inhabit these dwellings and even their dark, wet cellars, and who live confined amidst all this filth and foul air – which cannot be dissipated because of the surrounding lofty buildings – must surely have sunk to the lowest level of humanity.

“What do you eat?’ asked the young girl sat opposite me, without even a thought that this may be an odd question to ask someone who was meant to be explaining what they do for a living.

A tennis-themed joke for the start of Wimbledon? We do our best to be topical.
On an almost daily basis, you will find stories in the news that could easily be April Fools gags, were they …

There is a considerable proportion of these sixpenny trippers that can fairly and honestly be designated a nuisance.
Damaging grass lands, breaking trees, card playing, footballing in the public streets, and so on, are items of objectionable amusement

Dortmund is a working class city, deep in heart of Western Germany’s industrial area. It’s history is one of coal, steel, brewing (in this case the famous type of beer „Dortmunder Export“) and football. Unfortunately more recently it has also gained a reputation as a city with a nazi problem.

The thing with fish fingers is they are so delicious but you need about 15 to fill yourself up.