I just shook my head, laughed, and walked out Y’all, an incompetent front of house will kill a restaurant far faster than subpar food because people may forget a disappointing meal, but they never forget terrible service. 4/4

"I'm rubbish with Excel" is code for "I'm rubbish at my entire job". You don't hear carpenters saying they're rubbish with saws. You don't hear surgeons saying they're rubbish with scalpels. If you work in an I.T. company then fucking well learn to use the tools for your job.

"This penetrating and nuanced comic ensemble piece is a welcome breath of fresh air." Christopher Goulding' ★★★★★OUTSTANDING review of 'Supermarket 86' theSpaceUK wp.me/p3S2mm-51e

"It’s a story about a search for identity as much as success." Christopher Goulding' ★★★★NAE BAD review of 'In the Black' theSpaceUK wp.me/p3S2mm-51q #EdFringe

"A sometimes uncanny exhibition of shape-shifting." Christopher Goulding' ★★★★OUTSTANDING review of 'Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act' wp.me/p3S2mm-51F Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Assembly Festival

To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone. I didn't choose to

Much as I'd love to bring back Tomorrow's World, what we really need is Today's World, explaining the predatory nature of the tech industry, internet and phone scams, and online culture to people who aren't terminally online

There was never a question mark over final salary pensions until companies started taking 'pensions holidays' and dishing out the money to shareholders

Taking a train and thinking of The Reverend the Lord Beaumont- the first Green Party peer and probably last Whig Clerical grandee- who came up with this supremely relevant piece of legislation 29 years ago.

Between 1946 and 1989 England built an average of 2 reservoirs a year. Since 1989 when Water was privatised it has built -35. Built 0 and sold off 35. Worse than useless.

If your A level results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Us and here I am today, installing lights for a helicopter landing pad in my garden.

It is slower, it is unsocial, it permeates table areas where people are eating, pubs are not designed for this system, it de skills bar staff - in the traditional system there is an order and bar staff and customers need to be skilled to recognise this

"This is a cast you’ll be boasting of having seen back when." Dan Lentell's ★★★★★OUTSTANDING review of 'Knightclub' theSpaceUK wp.me/p3S2mm-542 #EdFringe

Following the phenomenal Key Live world tour, Alison has been longlisted in the Best Live Performer category at this year’s AIM ’s Independent Music Awards. We’d love your vote! (public vote closes 25 August): independentmusic.typeform.com/to/gyKZ9eLo Thank youuuuu!

If you don’t think it inappropriate, and you’ve a pointy finger going begging, I should not mind at all if you voted for me. A rank outsider, obvs, but a cats-snatch of hubris never hurt anyone. Eitherway. Being on a long list is splendid. Thank you list makers.

"The banter between Bennett, McCann, and Stephenson is what makes this show properly stand out." Dan Lentell's ★★★★NAE BAD review of 'Sketch Show Bingo!' theSpaceUK wp.me/p3S2mm-54E #EdFringe

Well here it is- finally got my hands on the finished article. It took a lot of work and time but it’s true that the actual moment of holding the book for the first time always feels a bit surreal. All sorts of stories about people, place and grace within. amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Churche…

"Utton’s instinctive feel for the humanity of the great and the good characters he uncannily inhabits downplays the madcap Toby Belchery of the recent retiree." Dan Lentell's ★★★★★OUTSTANDING review of 'King Lear' Pleasance wp.me/p3S2mm-554 #EdFringe Pip Utton