The Resurrection of Harry Potter

Added on 18 March 2012

This week's THIS BLASTED LIFE has been available for a couple of days now, but at the time it was posted I was in a car, and I've not really had the chance to sit at a computer since then, since I've been in long meetings with Blasted Heath supremos Al Guthrie and Kyle McRae. We've b...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY BEHIND THE £1.99 BARNEY THOMSON PAPERBACK

Added on 12 March 2012

To be honest, it's not that extraordinary. I have a vision. The seven Barney Thomson novels, with wonderful testicle-grabbing covers, staring out at customers from the shelves of WH Smiths, Waterstones and airport book stores all over the world. I'll turn up at the Frankfurt Book Fair with m...

Football Lies Bleeding

Added on 11 March 2012

This week's This Blasted Life is about football. Once again it's been written by Elvis Shackleton. Some readers apparently believe that there is no Elvis Shackleton, and that it's just the author currently known as Douglas Lindsay writing under a different name. Some people think the Ame...

As The Nation Falls Beneath The Shadow Of The Giant Steel Beasts

Added on 02 March 2012

The latest This Blasted Life is out, and once again I've handed it over to our own crack investigative journalist, Elvis Shackleton. It seems that wherever you go these days in Scotland you are guaranteed to come across a wind farm. And, more than likely, not a wind farm away in the distance on ...

Sometimes It Lasts In Football, And Sometimes It Hurts Instead...

Added on 23 February 2012

This week's This Blasted Life comes to you from the streets of Govan, where intrepid TBL reporter Elvis Shackleton goes in search of the truth behind the latest rumours surrounding beleagured football behemoths Glasgow Rangers. Now, just as it seems that they’re hitting rock bottom and are...