Mark Simpson on how we’re all Australian now (One from the vaults, originally appeared in the Guardian Guide, 2001 – at what now looks like Oz’s cultural high-water mark) If you listen carefully to the soundtrack on Puppetry of the Penis, a video of the show which recently toured… Read More »Fauxstralian Britain
This Summer’s smash-hit dating show is ‘a comedy of compulsory heterosexuality’. (Telegraph Men, 18 July, 2017) Utopian fantasies have long gripped the human imagination. Famous, brainy – but sadly, not very buff – thinkers such as Plato (in the 4th Century BC), Thomas Moore (in the 16th AD), and HG Wells… Read More »Love Island – ITV’s Primetime Spornotopia
That shameless hussy show Big Brother will soon be spread-eagled across our screens again. The puddle-deep fame factory and test-tube celembryo hatchery starts it’s Summer-long domination of the TV schedules next week. I have no intention of watching it – like most, I had my BB fling years ago and wish it… Read More »How I Fluffed Big Brother And My Chance to be REALLY FAMOUS
Poor Mark Latham, the former leader of the Australian Labour Party, isn’t happy with the state of Australian manhood. Like so many things, it isn’t as good or as big or as satisfying as it used to be. In his new book (curiously titled ’A Conga Line of Suckholes’) he… Read More »‘Metrosexual Knobs’ – Can They Satisfy?