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Mbia fined, QPR mugged off

On Monday, tweets from the Twitter account of QPR's Stéphane Mbia seemed to indicate that the player was keen on a return to Olympique de Marseille and that he was stupid enough to say so via such...

more on (moron?) Mbia

Perhaps this is a feeling entirely alien to the kind of thick-skinned sociopaths writing for our nation's tabloids, but some of us can sometimes feel a bit uncomfortable when really laying into the...

Stéphane Mbia: MORON

Writing about QPR this season has been a pretty dispiriting business. This accounts for the lack of Rangers-related output here at this is my england over the last few months. Many a depressing...

that OCD cleanathon thing...

... it gets a grip of some people, doesn't it? on their hands and knees at all hours, scrubbing the floor, polishing the banisters, removing every speck of dust from every stick furniture. OUT...

SUN, SEA AND BONEHEADS

Dear old Brighton. For all its faults, we like it a lot. Love it? That might be going a bit too far. But it remains dependably likeable and it's rare that a trip down there does not prove to be...

I'M SO SORRY....

... writes Norwegian YouTube user and CGI wizard logitech4873 (crazy name, crazy guy, as Glenda Slagg would say?). Sorry for what? Sorry for spending SIXTY-TWO HOURS rendering his THIRTY-ONE SECOND...

PLOTTING

PREVENTION...

... would surely be better than cure in the FCC graffiti war. this piece has not scrubbed off well:

RUNNING TODAY

as observed just last week, it really is almost impossible to do the First Capital Connect commute these days without seeing big, fresh and shiny graffiti runners. here's today's specimen:

STU ANEW

it seems likes ages since there was any sign of life at the CAMDEN RECTANGLE from that man stu bags. the last time we looked in there, was back in January - and that was only to observe that some...

KEEP ON RUNNING

RUNNERS on FIRST CAPITAL CONNECT: officially off the hook now. barely a day goes by without seeing new ones. this today, all on one train at St. Pancras:

SYRIAN CYBER-WAR HEATS UP

At about 1 p.m. London time today, the BBC's weather service Twitter account was compromised by a bunch of real charmers known as the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-regime hackers who have...

ADDING COLOUR TO YOUR JOURNEY

huge thanks to the good people of First Capital Connect. their unwillingness to erode profit margins by guarding their rolling stock at night means that commuters get to enjoy more and more...

FROM A RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW

for this is my england, the LEAST interesting thing about the new number from Russian combo Biting Elbows is the naughty word in the title. you grow out of favouring songs (Too Drunk to Fuck, Fuck...

Football: trust no one?

It's a good job that it's still good to play out the old rituals. Travelling the same way and by the same routes. Parking in the same place. Setting out for the station at the same time and in the...

THANKS FOR THE REMINDER

RIGHT, so what's good about this number from Etta Bond and Raf Riley is that all the bitchiness and snideyness and falseness and fakeness and brittleness and shittleness in the lyrics really REALLY...

May I have another kicking, please?

An old pal of mine owns and runs what I think is a pretty decent little independent restaurant. In a small city whose dining scene is swamped by the bland, relentlessly homogenising reliability of...

TRUE DAT

HE'S GUNNER BUST MAD RHYMES

GUESS WHO'S BACK? BACK AGAIN? ... so begins a famous number by a certain paleface rap artist from the Motor City. His masterwork, perhaps, with Dr Dre and Jenna Jameson taking roles in the...

RUNNERS: THE HOLE TRUTH

as the FCC war on graffiti rumbles on, someone is now writing the word ANUS on the side of the trains:

BALKAN BOOOOOOOOOOOM

A fascination for all things Balkan is a bit of a thing going on here at this is my england. This runs to a predilection for taking holidays in that part of Europe, major fanboy status when it...

veteran broadcaster

a national treasure, he sounds, now, like someone doing a very good impression of himself: spiralling comfortably up his own arsehole, happy to be lucratively bored, auto-sodomised by the horns of...

IN LONDON TOWN WHERE I WAS BORN

a stroll by the canal

What's it all about?

The First Capital Connect/BTP war on graffiti continues, with the legions of security staff protecting valuable rolling stock at night somehow unable to prevent the stylings of one devil-may-care...

GREAT BRANDS ARE PERVASIVE

SANITISE AND BORE

There was this once magnificent structure on Delancey Street in Camden Town. By the time I first noticed it, it was already dying, its last useful days having been spent in the guise of a snooker...

I HAD TO GO AND SEE THESE TWO GUYS

WE DON'T OFTEN GET TO MEET FOR LUNCH