This is the diary of a pissed-off toff.
That is pretty self-explanatory. But let me expand a little.
By birth, education and upbringing, I am what they call a toff. Furthermore, I am more or less permanently pissed-off about everything.
“Everything?” I hear you say.
Yes, jolly nearly everything. Not just the ever-more-numerous trials and tribulations of daily life in England; not just the infinitely depressing spectacle of my own country going down the tube while we all look on impotently; but also the fact that I am broke, dispossessed, and increasingly alienated from almost every aspect of the modern world.
“I say, aren’t you exaggerating a bit?” you ask.
Not really. Anyhow, this is my diary. Or, if you prefer, the fulminations of a pissed-off toff who wonders whether it is he or the world that has gone stark raving mad …
In this mid-October edition of his diary, Pissed-off Toff fears that our national suicide is sending him mad; reflects on the abolition of sex outside an ‘established relationship’; and wonders … Keep Reading
Pissed-off Toff compares the vigorous policing of the all-white anti-lockdown rally in London on Saturday 26 September with the acquiescent police presence at the far bigger Black Lives Matter rally, … Keep Reading
In which Pissed-off Toff demolishes, line by line, the recently broadcast ‘address to the nation’ by Boris Johnson. He appeared on our screens at 8pm on Tuesday of last week, … Keep Reading
Pissed-off Toff decides on the future direction of his blog. And he launches a regular diary, as a bad-tempered weekly fixture. MANIFESTO I have been thinking about the way forward … Keep Reading
Pissed-off Toff explores the recent phenomenon of the ubiquitous filler word ‘like’. Having come down from Cambridge in the early 1980s, my friend Johnny settled and married in Italy. He … Keep Reading
As the winter solstice approaches, and as the yuletide festivities remind us of what marvels can occur, Pissed-off Toff announces to the world that he self-identifies as a trans-species parrot. For … Keep Reading
Pissed-off Toff reviews a fairly recent film called The Riot Club, in which more-or-less upper-class undergraduates at Oxford are portrayed as being not only beyond the pale in every way, … Keep Reading
As the international super-rich devour London, and as they turn their greedy eyes to the rest of our country, some economists insist that we should celebrate. Pissed-off Toff marvels at … Keep Reading