Barstool philosopher: media bias cannot be avoided so don’t try to hide it
By the time someone has the skills to be a TV or newspaper reporter they already have ingrained views and beliefs. There is no such thing as unbiased news. What we need is to have people’s philisophical and political leanings clearly laid out – so you can weigh up what they are saying on the […]
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Sunday, November 8, 2020 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
The idea of Scots having to ask permission to be independent is frankly ludicrous.
Just to nail something down – Scotland can have an independence referendum any time it likes. Scotland is a country and the people are sovereign. It’s not like we are children who have to ask our ‘parents’ first. Scotland is not a colony and not a conquest of England. The idea of asking permission to […]
Thursday, August 30, 2018 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Tags: independence, indie, Scotland, scottish independence
How to fix a dripping, screaming mixer tap
Turn water off. Go down to basement to discover someone has stolen all of your tools including all those you inherited from your dad. Go to buy tools and a washer at B&Q. It is Sunday and you’ve arrived 10 seconds too late. B&Q is shut. Listen to the dripping and wailing of the tap […]
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Friday, August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Tags: bar stool philosopher, dripping tap, fix
Bar Stool Philosopher Looks back at 2016
In January the BBC ran a story about migrants caught abusing that most traditional of British fruits, the banana. The court illustrator of the Daily Mail produced a drawing of one he had seen in the lunchbox of a friend; the banana was straight. ‘Many of my friends are foreigners’ he said; ‘this has nothing […]
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Saturday, December 31, 2016 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Tags: bar stool philospher
The Bar Stool Philosopher Is Seeking The Right Photo
Every creative individual knows success is all about having the right photo; the photo that makes you look artistic, interesting, good looking, sexy, strong but vulnerable, modern but classic, serious but cool; an outsider but somehow still accessible. To the viewer it will be clear that the heavy burden of your talent is lightly worn. […]
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Bar Stool Philosopher: It’s Time To Grow Up And Leave Home
The idea of a ‘god given natural order of things and people’ is central to Conservative ideology; Westminster is full of public school educated individuals, who are part of that section of society who believe they are born to lead. They believe this is natural and it is right. They know best – and they […]
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Monday, August 18, 2014 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Bar Stool Philosopher says, there’s no Whooping craze
Our task today is to Take ideas from music such as looping and apply them to writing. Ok here’s the rhythm; dit, dit, dit. Write it down and make the first dit bold (we are emphasising the first beat). Rewrite that phrase ten times – hear it loop in your head as you write – […]
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Thursday, June 5, 2014 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Bar stool philosopher: Songwriting for people who will never have a hit
Lots of people write songs; most of those songs will be heard by one or 2 people or maybe a few hundred. I’m one of those people. So for most songwriters there is a need to redefine songwriting – away from the notion that you are trying to write a hit or trying to learn […]
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Saturday, April 12, 2014 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher, Jim's Acoustic Music Blog
Tags: bar stool philospher, Jim Byrne, songwriting
The Bar stool philosopher get’s anxious about Scottish Independence
Scottish Independence? Maybe’s Aye, maybe’s nah. Shallow, vox pop based tv ‘debates’ on Independence can only lead me to conclude; that nobody knows – or if they do know – they are not telling. Though maybe I should just conclude, ‘it’s a waste of time watching tv debates’. But then, facts and figures seem as […]
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
Ohh to be a writer! The bar stool philosopher
Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac. Ohhhhh to be a writer – such fun. Here’s me, for example, being amusing in a feature for a weekend magazine, or me working my immersive magic on page 354 of my novel, or me being asked by the literary critic of The Observer what makes me tick, makes […]
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
The Bar Stool Philosopher: Structured inequality, statistics and the individual
Statistics show that people born into lower income families in poorer areas don’t have the same ‘life chances’ as those born into higher income families. For want of a better description – this demonstrates the existence of ‘structured inequality’ i.e. institutions and individuals have in-built ways of operating that leads to: people born poor staying […]
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | Filed under: Bar Stool Philosopher
