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New on urban75! Punch Iain Duncan Smith Punch Saddam Punch Jim Davidson and a swanky new Punch homepage!

Favourite links of the day! Tens of Bush Supporters Take To the Streets In Support of the President – fab pisstake See New York in the snow – if you’ve …

An all-protestin’, all-partyin’ weekend! On Saturday I joined the biggest demo Britain has ever seen – the Stop The War march in London, and then checked out the Brixton Telegraph …

Today’s top link! Make your own George Bush speech! Use this fun Flash game to ‘speechify’ Bush as he continues his ‘bombification’ of Iraq and tries to ‘eliminatise’ Saddam. And …

Phew – what a weekend! This weekend saw yours truly talking the usual bollocks at the prestigious Fabian Society’s annual conference, sat on discussion panels with a Lord and the …

Number One! After a truly immense redesign of the urban75 panorama section and the photo sections, I’ve now getting number one rankings at Google for phrases like, “London photos”, “Chicago …

Spent a lovely day in Brighton today but couldn’t shake of the sadness at seeing the sad trashed ruins of Brighton’s half-collapsed West Pier. Why the fuck was such a …

The office is currently reverberating to… Tom Waits, ‘Closing Time’ Ms Dynamite, ‘a little deeper’ Monochrome Set, ‘Dante’s Casino’ Psychedelic Furs, ‘Forever Now’ Hem, ‘Rabbit Songs’

The bulletin boards are back! After much techie fiddling about, I’m delighted to say that the urban75 bulletin boards are now back in full swing. Yipee! I was worried that …

Lovely, lovely Wales! Here’s some remotely interesting facts about my home country: Mount Everest was named after a Welshman (Sir George Everest from Crickhowell – surveyor-general of India 1865). The …

Battling with bulletin boards After the original boards finally melted down due to sheer weight of traffic, die-hard urbanites have been huddled together in this makeshift freebie forum. Meanwhile our …

Woe is me! I’ve just endured the uncomfortable spectacle of watching the, err, mighty Cardiff City being blasted out of the FA cup by Coventry City. The jammy gits soaked …

King of the Hangovers! After a hard week battling with a writing deadline, I figured I was entitled to a beer or two last night.Sadly, it turned into an alcoholic …

New tunes! I forgot to mention this on Saturday, but Londoners be sure to check out the excellent FOPP music store in Covent Garden: it’s got a great stock of …

Happy New Year! OK, it’s a bit belated, but it’s taken me a day or two to get over the fierce quaffing! The weather in London remains a most unseasonal …

tunes of the day… Dexy’s Midnight Runners ‘looking for the soul rebels’, Be Good Tanyas, Sterephonics ‘word gets around’, Microdisney ’39 minutes’, Gene ‘Olympian’ and a large festive wodge of …

A never ending horizon of beers and mince pies Shit, I’ve gorged myself so much over the past week I’m starting to dream of all the excess! Still, there’s always …

Still recovering… It’s been a hectic few days.. the urban75 party rocked big time with an up-for-it friendly crowd, some top tunes and the loveliest people – big respect all …

Tax return hell! Is there anything more boring, more mind-numbingly fucking tedious than rummaging around in boxes of yellowing receipts and then having to type all the shit into Microsoft-arsing-Money?! …

Site of the day! Check out this superb site, Butlins Memories that has loads of obscure facts and photos from the British holiday camps of the 1950s-80s. If you’re in …

F-f-f-fucking f-f-f-freezing! Now, I like cold weather. You can’t beat walking through fresh snow in the crisp light of a winter’s night, jacket zipped up against a chilly wind and …

Spamtastic 🙁 Fuck me: 240 identical spams in 2 minutes marks a new record even for me (and, believe me, I get a load of shitty spam every day). The …

Manics at the Academy Brixton Just come back from an excellent show in Brixton (on the guest list too, thanks to my CCFC-loving chum, Scott!). I know that the Manics …

what a day… …consisting of a cod-mystic gay marriage ceremony in the GLA buildings (“earth energy streams”, my arse!), followed by a lovely N London reception. Then the news of …

The mother, father and close family of hangovers …is coming soon! Yep, after tonight’s alco-fest at a London Bridge Xmas party my head is sure to be spinning tomorrow. I’ve …

Brixton Winter Lights are go! Or rather, they will be at 7pm tonight when internationally-renown, A-list celeb, Jeff, err, Schuman (who he?) from, err, Choice FM (who they?) throws the …

Things I liked this weekend: Cardiff City crushing QPR 4-0 at Loftus Road (although I had to sit in the wrong stand), the fantastic Butlins photos at the Photographer’s Gallery, …