Betrayed by the children of the sixties
My baby boomers book is out tomorrow (Monday) with a stark and unpopular message for my own generation.
It says that the baby boomers saw themselves as pioneers of a new world – freer, fresher, fairer and infinitely more fun. But the world they made for their children to live in is a far harsher one than the world they inherited.
Union bosses, boo, hiss
I'm currently handling media relations for the Fire Brigades Union, and a smooth-voiced young man from Metro called up tonight and reminded me of the misery of dealing with a journalist who is scrabbling eagerly up the greasy tabloid ladder, and doesn't care how much truth gets trampled on the way.
A baby boomers victory
The baby boomer generation - my generation - exercised its political muscle last week. We have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who was not even born in 1968, but the one group he felt he had to appease was the now elderly children of the sixties.
Phil hears no evil - or anything else
Capitalism is full of cruel iroinies. "Virgin media shorts" says the announcer lady in a voice you could pour on a waffle. "Championing undiscovered talent."
And I heard it because I was loyally watching the competition entry made by that splendid, but resting, actor Phil Philmar from Player Playwrights, who has helped me understand what's wrong with some of my plays.
Wayne Rooney, Iain Dale and me
I wake up today rather pleased that my new book is to be published by Iain Dale's firm, Biteback Publishing. His courage in publishing a book about Wayne Rooney that Random House, which commissioned it, ran from in fear when threatened by Rooney's lawyers, makes him something like a champion of free speech.