I haven’t drunk booze in 19 days. I’ve tried eating intestine-melting curry. I’ve tried lifting heavy things, drinking gallons of water. I’ve even tried sleep deprivation. Of all of these things, sleep deprivation has come closest to the familiarness of alcohol. So this morning, when I dragged myself out of a bed I’d only just […]

I haven’t had any booze for 16 days. Last night I dreamt about having a sneaky can of super-strength cider down my neck. No hallucinations of note as yet.

Uxbridge Road, scene of mediocre football violence, chip-shop violence, and now pedestrian rage. A mild mannered Saturday outing to eat Portuguese chicken led to an ugly situation where cars were overturned and seven people were hospitalised. The prosecution claim that it all started when the pedestrian turned ‘anti-profanity vigilante’ bought Grand Theft Auto 3 –