George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, green campaigner and the chattering classes’ favourite eco luvvie, has suddenly gone completely mad and declared war on … the Aga.
Now look George, I have to tell you, it’s all well and good getting shirty about Terminal 5, recycling, Shell, etc, but quite another to start criticising the lifestyles of media [...]

Sarah Beeny, in typically forthright style, says she wouldn’t miss being on the goggle box, but her old man might be a bit miffed:
“I still don’t like the lack of privacy that goes with it. I’ve been on television for the past seven years, which is incredible really. My husband would mind though.
“I was a [...]

Well done to the FT’s excellent Alphaville blog for spotting an interesting chart in the Nationwide’s quarterly report – one that suggests house prices are just a hair’s breadth away from returning to their long-term trend.
The diagonal line is the long-term trend; the drunken squiggly one plots how house prices have deviated wildly from the [...]

As that old Chinese curse euphemistically states, ‘may you live in interesting times’ and 2008 was certainly interesting; with 2009 shaping up to be not just interesting but also fascinating, flabbergasting and possibly even gobsmacking.
Thankyou for all your support and comments in 2008 and from all of us at Winging It, cheers, sláinte and iechyd [...]

Normally when I’m on holiday, I’m far more inclined towards trash TV than anything remotely brain-taxing, but this Christmas I’m going to tune into a Radio 4 special about the economy (Today programme, 31 December).
The fact that this particular radio show is being edited by Jarvis Cocker – who I’ve seen in concert, oh, about [...]

Here’s a little Christmas game to waste 5 minutes …
Shoot snowballs at Santa! But watch out for the evil snowmen (and the turkeys).

(courtesy of the nice people over at www.scenta.co.uk)

We’re easily amused here at Winging It – a picture of a monkey or a YouTube video of a dancing cat is usually enough to have us chortling happily.
But it takes something a bit special to make us howl so dementedly that we’re in danger of rupturing major internal organs.
So be warned: this stupendous spoof [...]

You’ve just been to the office Christmas party. You snogged Ingrid from accounts, called your boss a fat fool, and set your face on fire with a badly aimed flaming Sambuca.
It hasn’t been your finest hour, and now you’re wandering the cold and frosty streets with a dead mobile, half a bottle of Pernod, tinsel [...]

Don’t know about you, but I can’t say I find the words “partially converted” very reassuring … not when it comes to a nuclear bunker.
It’s bad enough now, but how hard is it going to be to find a builder after a full scale nuclear attack? (“Sorry mate, can’t start this week, all my tools [...]

With every man and his blog listing Christmas gift ideas, who are we to ignore that particular bandwagon? So jump on board the Winging It Blog gift guide to …
10 Duck Themed Presents For The Anatidaephile In Your Life
(That’s ‘waterfowl lover’ to you and me – which is illegal in some countries so careful [...]