Uncategorised – Jack Sanger

The Medium is the Massage

A while back now I was in Tashkent in Uzbekistan and developed a bad back. Someone arranged for a physiotherapeutic massage. I turned up at what seemed to be a night club in the basement of a high rise block of unsympathetic concrete. The tale could be a long one. Suffice it to say that… Know More
Read more: The Medium is the Massage
Brain damage is good for you…

Of course, when I was a boy there was no such thing as sats – standardised tests of children at ceratin stages of their school careers. But there was the eleven plus examination which weeded out snotty grammar school children from grubby secondary modern children. When they dropped this divisive and discriminatory examination in all… Know More
Read more: Brain damage is good for you…
Under the skin of Geert Wilders

Being a beatnik; donkey jacketed, side-burned, quiffed, d.a.d, Aldermaston-marching late teenager in the early sixties, I had the utmost respect for Michael Foot and am sorry he has passed to that other place where idealism conquers cynicism and humility snuffs out ambition. I hope his soap box is a golden winged chariot so he can… Know More
Read more: Under the skin of Geert Wilders
Robbing Banks

There was a time when I was a lad, running wild through the fields of Durham, building dams and shooting at birds – with no success – that my father was paid cash in a small brown envelope with holes in it, each week. I don’t know at what point it happened, probably in the… Know More
Read more: Robbing Banks
The Sin of Anger

The media have been full of the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s anger tantrums for the last few days. I even saw a clip of him saying that he had never hit anyone in his life. It’s all a storm in a thrown teacup one suspects. What the press are saying is that he is… Know More
Read more: The Sin of Anger
A Rough Guide to TV Social Anthropology

I suppose I am a well seasoned traveller, having worked in over 20 countries in Europe, North America, Russia and Central Asia. Now, here I am in West Africa. This is Ghana, which most UK institutions seem to think is an annex of Nigeria and, therefore, a credit card pariah of the world of personal… Know More
Read more: A Rough Guide to TV Social Anthropology
You Dirty Rat!

Seems like we are having more and more difficulties as a species in developing an agreed ethics when it comes to animals. On the British TV Channel, ITV, is a programme devoted to putting minor celebrities in the ‘jungle’ and asking them to survive a series of challenges to their capacity to stay calm under… Know More
Read more: You Dirty Rat!
Open wide. Say Arrgh!

Of course, most Ghanaians never see a dentist. Until recently their teeth weren’t subjected to processed foods with all that sugar and, anyway, apart from having a tooth wrenched out, there would be no thought given to any other treatment. It would be too costly. I paid my first visit to a dental surgery for… Know More
Read more: Open wide. Say Arrgh!
In Flagrente Delicto

For those of you who are not aware, and there are readers in Mexico, Russia, and in Indonesia, say, for whom it may not be of any interest (they may not like football), the Captain of the current English football team is one John Terry and he has been discovered to have had an affair… Know More
Read more: In Flagrente Delicto
Swan Upping

So, Tiger Woods is not the only one in the news for belying his carefully manicured image among advertisers, the media and those who held him in such high esteem as a family role model! That bastion of dutiful and faithful creatures, the swan, is now a number one target for those who would uphold… Know More
Read more: Swan Upping

Jack’s Blog