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Manchester City look set to be punished, finally. But it’s fair to wonder if it’s too little too late.

Posted on 30/10/2026 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

The 1st of July 2003. If you’re unsure of the significance of this date, it was the day that Ken Bates officially sold Chelsea football club to Roman Abramovich. On the 29th September 2026 Manchester City were found guilty of … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi United Group, Alan Sugar, Andy Burnham, Arsenal, Autocrats, Blackburn Rovers, Blairism, British, Chelsea, David Moores, Der Spiegel, English, Jack Walker, Ken Bates, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Martin Edwards, Money, Pep Guardiola, Peter Risdale, Pink Floyd, Premier League, Roman Abramovich, Rui Pinto, Soviet Union, Spurs, Thatcherism, The Ritz-Carlton, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

We blew it.

Posted on 11/11/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Leonard Cohen once prophesied ‘Democracy is coming, to the USA’. But despite its lyrical brilliance I highly doubt he would have pictured Donald Trump ever becoming America’s president when ‘Democracy’ was penned twenty-five years ago. I recognise there’s something macabre … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Cohenism is better than all the other isms, Democracy is coming to the USA, Destructive soapboxing, Digitalism, Disengaged age, Donald Trump, Easy Rider, Facebook, Gone for politics as the category but I dunno really, Justifiably karmic, Leonard Cohen, Media, Newspapers, Nigel Farage, Piousness, Reaganism, RIP Lenny, Terrorism, Thatcherism, The Future, The Simpsons were right, Twitter, We blew it, Will people wake up and stop being so cuntish?, Wyatt and Billy blew it too man | 2 Comments

What the fuck just happened?

Posted on 11/05/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. There was supposed to be post-election confusion with a hung parliament, and we were just getting used to that idea. Other than the SNP, the number of seats won by each party won … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged 56, Alastair Campbell, BBC Scotland, Blairism, Call-Me-Dave wins again, Cartman, Charlie Brooker, Clement Attlee, Devo Max?, Ed Miliband as a gastric band, England, EU Referendum, Eurozone, Federialism, Good riddance Dougie Alexander, Gordon Brown, Greens, Jeremy Clarkson, Jim Murphy, Katie Hopkins, Labour are fucked, Lib Dems, Lynton Crosby, Mahiri Black, Nicholas Cage laughing gif is a winner, Plaid Cymru, Scotland, Scottish Labour are fucked, Silent Tories, SNP, Thatcherism, The Defenders of the Faith, Tony Benn again, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP, Wales | Leave a comment

General Election 2015 – The Final Countdown

Posted on 05/05/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so here we are on the verge of a General Election, and yes, this is just what everybody needs, another mouthy dickhead with a blog writing a highly speculative article about it, because there haven’t been nearly enough of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Blackmail, Blairism, BNP, Chuka Umunna, Crack cocaine, Creationism, Cuntism, Daily Mail, David Cameron, Douglas Alexander, DUP, Ed Miliband, England, FPTP, From Bury to Borehamwood, General Election 2015, Gennie Leckies, Holyrood, Irish Reunification, It's The Final Countdown by fucking Journey, Jim Murphy, Jimbo, Judas, Justin Bieber, Krokodil, Labourities are shite, Lib Dems, Mhairi Black, Mortal Kombat, Muppets, Nick Clegg, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, Nigel Farage is a cunttwat, Nigel Farage is a twat, Northern Ireland, Oswald Mosley, Plaid Cymru, schadenfreude, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Scottish Labour, Screenwipe, SDLP, Sinn Fenn, SNP, Telepathic seals trying to make our kids transgender and dat, Terrorism, Thatcherism, Too many tags lad!, Tory Bastards, Tory McTernan, UKIP, Wales, Welsh Independence, Westminster, Xenophobia | 1 Comment

Smearing Sturgeon

Posted on 09/04/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With the General Election only a month away, expect a failing fourth estate that’s entirely reliant on sustaining the British electorate’s loyalty to Westminster’s conventions and structures, to throw copious amounts of shit at her and the SNP. The recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Alex DeLarge, Alistiar Carmichael, BBC, Braw Welsh accents, Captain Kirk, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Frank Bruno, Hillsborough, Holyrood, I smell shite, James Cook, Karen Dunbar, Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, Labour, Leanne Wood, LET THEM DIE!, Lib Dems, Lying bastards, Natalie Bennett, Nationalists, NHS, Nick Clegg, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, Peter Oborne, Phone hacking, Plaid Cymru, Print Journalism is dying, Scottish Office, Self-interest, Smears, SNP, Terence Davies, Thatcherism, The Daily Mail, The French can be trusted, The scum newspaper, The Telegraph, Too many tags, Tories, Twitter, Unionists, William Shatner, Yes I did have to look up how 'Plaid Cymru' was spelled | Leave a comment