Words Dept.: archive

Warm Bologna night
Right foot volley David Platt
No penalties
Word reached me this week of the High IQ Haiku World Cup Project. I’ve never tried writing haiku before but this idea appealed.
They’re inviting haiku relating to the forthcoming World Cup, or to World Cups past. So I went with Italia 90, the first World Cup I properly [...]

Earlier this month, as part of its Manchester Celebrates Jaguar event, Jaguar lent me a sixty grand supercharged XFR for the night (complete with 5.0-litre, 510bhp V8 engine). So I thought I’d make a short film out of it.
The journey starts at the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester and continues through Manchester city [...]

I don’t really get the point – journalistically, poetically, metaphorically or otherwise – of the Observer’s 3,000-word Miranda Sawyer-authored feature on the joy of Nando’s today. The feelgood piece, with the headline How Nando’s conquered Britain, is the type of advertising money can’t by, as Sawyer mooches around a couple of branches of the restaurant chain [...]

My memory of the General Election this year is going to be dominated by Salford. As previously mentioned, I’ve been making a documentary about the local campaign in Salford and Eccles, focusing mainly on the anti-Hazel Blears candidate. As a result, I managed to get into the count on Thursday night/Friday morning and witnessed, at [...]