1980’s

Streetview sightseeing: do the Safety Dance

Admin | Thursday 18 November 2010

If you really want to do the Safety Dance properly you should visit the village of West Kington, which is near Bath.

Classic Colgate toothpaste ad

Admin | Saturday 27 December 2008

A marvellous Colgate toothpaste ad from the early 1980’s based on ‘Baggy Trousers’ by Madness. And here’s a version for the US market with some of the same kids. But with every trace of Britishness and most of the Madness imagery removed it doesn’t quite ‘get it’ and ends up looking like a dog’s dinner.

Manchester and slavery

Admin | Tuesday 27 March 2007

Manchester’s wealth was founded on the cotton industry and dependent on slave-grown cotton. But the city was also at the centre of the anti-slavery movement.

An inconvenient truth: Gay Manchester was better 20 years ago

Admin | Thursday 21 September 2006

I get tired of newspaper articles that make out that the gay ‘scene’ in Manchester used to be so seedy and bad years ago, but now it is so wonderful. It just isn’t true. Take this article from 2003 which appeared in The Manchester Evening News — a newspaper that can be relied on to … An inconvenient truth: Gay Manchester was better 20 years ago

Bargain Hunters: cakes

Admin | Monday 1 May 2006

It was Marie Antoinette who supposedly said ‘let them eat cake.’ We found that Sainsburys in Manchester takes a different line…

Bargain Hunters is our reality shopping programme. Story links & info on my site.

Voters dislike adulterous MPs. Gay MPs don’t bother them