What is it with this new puritanism that’s sweeping the land? David Cameron might like to witter on about ‘happiness indexes’ for the UK and the like, but the grim reality of his government is ever increasing restrictions on people enjoying themselves. Take this latest nonsense about...

Hooray, hooray! It’s a leap year! The occasion when, every four years, we get given an extra day! Yes, that’s right – a whole bonus day! And what do we do with it? That’s right, we treat it like any other day. Indeed, if it falls on a week day, we work through it. What a bloody...

Here we are again – as I write this we are on the cusp of a New Year. As 2011 slips between our fingers, leaving, as all outgoing years seem to, that vague feeling that we it is ending too soon, that we never really got to grips with it, 2012 stretches ahead, a blank canvas waiting for our...

People, eh? Aren’t they just so bloody tiresome? I’m finding it increasingly difficult to be bothered to communicate with most of the bastards. Particularly when they’re using the web as a means of communication. The other day I saw from my web stats that someone had repeatedly been...

Well, here we are at last, the ‘new’ Sleaze. I know it must all seem a bit confusing to regulars – all of a sudden everything has changed, The Sleaze doesn’t look like The Sleaze anymore. But don’t worry, everything you liked from the old site is still here, (not to mention the bits...

Just lately I’ve been lurking around the forums of some other satire sites. Basically, I still miss the old Humorfeed members forum and I’m looking for somewhere else to hang out. However, I was more than a little disturbed by what I found. Rather than finding a community of like-minded...

In my quest to try and improve traffic to this site, I’ve considered all manner of strategies. One that I think I’ve mentioned before is the idea of trying to get celebrity endorsements. It’s a long tradition in the print media and I assume that it must work – just look at the number...

I’m beginning to feel like the last man standing. With regard to satire-based web sites, that is, not with regard to wrestling, bare-knuckle fighting or competitive drinking, obviously. There always has been a high attrition rate amongst satire sites, but just lately they seem to have been...

With 2010 hurtling toward oblivion like some hell bound train, we’ve come to that curious point in the calendar, where I have to write what is both the final editorial of the out-going year, but is also the first of the incoming year. So, what should I do – look back on the twelve months...

It’s nice to know that the Pope thinks I’m a dangerous subversive, threatening the moral fabric of modern society. Yes, I’m one of those atheist secularists he was railing about on his recent visit to the UK. A visit that I – as a taxpayer – subsidised,...

Holiday season again. Mind you, as I’ve undoubtedly mentioned before, I’m one of those strange people who rarely actually go anywhere on holiday. When I take an extended break from work, (which I’m doing at the moment), I simply like to do more of the things work prevents...

With all the excitement of our tenth anniversary behind us, and things still looking grim on the traffic front, I thought it was perhaps about time that we re-iterated what this site is really about, and revisited the ‘Sleaze Manifesto’, which informs all of our activity. However,...

Well, here we are, ten years since I first put The Sleaze online. Not that anyone else seems to care – traffic is still hitting rock bottom (and has been since the beginning of the year – it took a further nosedive at the start of February, and has never really recovered), and the...

It’s taken an age for me to even get started on this editorial. After nearly ten years of cobbling together these words of wisdom I’m clearly running out of inspiration. Of course, it doesn’t help that these days I have to keep editorials bland and free from anything which...

Christmas again! If any of you have been following this site’s editorial blog, Sleaze Diary, it can’t have escaped your notice that this year I’ve been much more kindly disposed to the festive season than usual. Now, whilst I’d like to say that this was the result of...

So, here we are – Autumn again. Summer’s but a memory and the leaves are tumbling from the trees. I love this time of year. I especially like it when its largely dry, as it has been around here, and the fallen leaves stay crisp, crackling underfoot as you walk. There’s...

So here we are in the dog days of August (as I write this), mired in the annual ‘silly season’, even web traffic seems becalmed. With everyone on holiday and nothing in the news, it is becoming ever more difficult to stir up any interest amongst the remaining web surfers for just...

So Alan Sugar has chosen a new ‘apprentice’ – do I give a shit? Apparently Big Brother has started again on Channel Four – could I care less? Somebody vulnerable and possibly mentally ill who sang something on Britain’s Got Talent is the latest media sensation...

Only the second editorial of the year and already I’m alternately foaming at the mouth and despairing at the rank stupidity of large swathes of the human race. Clearly, the problem is worse than I feared and the idiots are far closer to taking over completely than I originally...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh! Please excuse me whilst I scream in terror before cowering behind my sofa. Right now we should all be paralysed with fear. It just isn’t safe to step outside of our front doors, as we’re all about to be devoured by a huge Godzilla-like monster which is...

Out with the old, in with new. At least as far as The Sleaze is concerned. Regular readers may well have noticed that the site has a new look. Whilst some elements – the banners and navigation bar – have been retained, the rest of the page layouts have been reworked to give...

It hasn’t been easy keeping this site going for the past few months. The abrupt and complete collapse of traffic to The Sleaze in June hasn’t been alleviated. It’s just gone on and on. And on. Every time it looks as if things are picking up, it crashes again, plummeting...

Summer’s here again! Not that you’d know it from the weather, mind you. August, and it feels like October already. Of course, the British weather shouldn’t be worrying us, as we shouldn’t be here. We should all be on holiday by now, in Ibiza or somewhere similarly...

I wouldn’t ordinarily advocate assassination, but extraordinary times call for extreme measures. I’m afraid that Boris Johnson’s election as London Mayor has been testing my commitment to democratic principles to the limits. If ever we needed proof that, as Homer Simpson...

Look, the truth has to be told. We can’t go on living this lie. Someone has to have the courage to come out and say it: the UK is under imminent threat from monster attacks. There, I’ve said it. I know that the government wants to keep this under wraps, I understand that...

Apparently, as I get older, I’m becoming ever more misanthropic and miserable. Or so I’m told. Can you blame me? It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the rest of the human race are complete arseholes. No, really – people are just such horrible bastards. I should...

Have you ever been struck by the unbearable crapness of being? I bet you have – you might not have known what it was at the time, but you’ve felt it. I’m not talking about those times when you are in despair because life seems totally shit. This isn’t about life...

As I’m writing it in October, perhaps this editorial should have a Halloween theme. Then again, it will still be up in November, by when it would look hopelessly irrelevant. Having said that, I will be addressing some truly horrific subject matter, namely the issue of customer service....

Social networking – what the fuck’s that all about, eh? And so opens another editorial, on a note of rational debate. But, rather than teeter into another demented rant on the part of yours truly, let’s step back from the precipice and address this issue in a calm and...

Lately, I’ve been having a run of appalling luck. Particularly with regard to my health. Even before the recent agonising kidney stone incident, I had an infected tooth (since extracted), and had to take a course of antibiotics. Whilst the antibiotics cleared up the infection very...