NHS / Bits On The Side

  • Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

MORE NHS Right, look I know I’ve been going on about this every single day for the last week, but its a subject quite close to my heart. If I had any problems with that heart it would be even closer. The NHS bill may get passed today. I’m honestly not sure to what extent, […]

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Collection of Things

  • Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Less a blog today, more a small collection of things of which I wish to inform you. Serious one first: NHS REFORM BILL The NHS reform bill is currently being debated by the House of Lords and with the assumption that it will get passed in some format whether we like it or not, this […]

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Planet Saving For Dummies

  • Monday, October 10th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Sometimes its very easy to get disheartened with comedy and the world in general. Yesterday was one of those days that fully reaffirmed my faith in both. The Block The Bill, Block The Bridge demonstration yesterday, as organised by UK Uncut was a lovely sunny afternoon of very civil disobedience and one of the nicest […]

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Block The Bridge

  • Sunday, October 9th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

A very short blog today as I’m off to this: BLOCK THE BRIDGE Which is one of the most important protests you could possibly attend. I’m meant to be doing stand-up there today but I’m really struggling to find humour in the notion of the NHS being destroyed in place of a privatised system that […]

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Bear Witness

  • Saturday, October 8th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Essentially today has, so far, been nothing but a bit of loveliness. My bestest bud Mat and his girlfriend Hannah did the formal part of their wedding this morning, making them officially, by certificate, husband and wife. The big do is in a few weeks time so today was just the ‘paperwork’ but made so […]

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Boots & Cats

  • Friday, October 7th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

I always harbour an odd thought that if I wasn’t a stand up I’d be a hip hop DJ of some sorts. Or an astronaut. Or an adventurer. Or a rock star. Or just that guy in the pub that no one knows who he is, where he’s from, what he does for a living, […]

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Mac Daddy

  • Thursday, October 6th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

It was an odd thing to find out Steve Jobs had died this morning. Only a day after Apple launch its new products and only a few months after he stepped down as chief executive of the company, I’m not sure anyone suspected he was quite so close to the end of his life. Hours […]

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Size Of The Fight In The Dog

  • Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

I thought I’d wait and type today’s blog after watching David Cameron do his speech at the end of the Conservatives Conference. It’s the last of the three main parties meetings and probably, or at least I thought so, the most important to pay attention to for the key clues as to how much worse […]

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National Health Disservice

  • Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

I have accidentally made too much popcorn. Unpopped corn appears to be one of those unquantifiable solids in the universe. Sure I’ve got to ‘put enough kernels to cover the bottom of the pan’ but we all know that’s never enough, but as soon as you add even one more kernel than that to the […]

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Out Of The Zone

  • Monday, October 3rd, 2011
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

STAGGERED I’m not sure what sort of a blog this will be today. After a weekend on my best friend’s stag do, my brain isn’t quite in top form. Today is mostly for gathering back together the strands of reality and life where I’m not roaming around with 9 other men wondering how best to […]

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