Charlie Likes…

• Beer
• Sunshine
• Asparagus
• Living in the countryside
• Pubs
• Poetry
• Manchester United
• Moors
• Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe
• Growing his own food
• Writing stuff
• Bread with seeds in it
• Running (not actually doing it but the beneficial after effects)
• Being a student
• Waitrose
• Radio Five (most of the time), BBC Four
• Cod psychology
• Taylor Landlord, Thornbridge Jaipur IPA, Hop Back Summer Lightning
• Beetroot
• Sneaker Pimps
• Organic food
• The Chilterns
• Berocca
• Airport lounges with free drink
• My netbook
• 70s and 80s music
• Snow and heavy rain
• Fan heaters
• Kylie Minogue
• Frank Sidebottom
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• The A34
• Roast Potatoes
• The Apprentice
• A nice German Biergarten
• May, June, July, October, November and December (especially Christmas and Bonfire Night)
• Viognier, Shiraz, Grenache
• ‘I Can’t Wait’ by Nu Shooz
• Cats
• Fireworks
• Santa Barabara
• Free range stuff
• Worms
• Log fires
• Alton Towers
• Fawlty Towers
• The Pennines
• The Beatles
• Corporate strategy and Enterprise Architecture
• Pattern intelligence
• Go Ape
• The National Trust
• Camping
• Laura Tobin, Louise Lear, Susan Powell
• South Poetry

 Charlie Doesn’t Like…

• Gordon Brown
• Gastropubs
• Doctors and politicians who bang on about alcohol being the root of every evil
• Takeaways
• Bullshitters
• Vacuous football pundits
• Lazy, idle landlords
• Small-minded, middle-class bigots
• Scruffy suburbs
• Political correctness
• Gatwick South Terminal
• Radio One, BBC Three
• Boring cloudy days and fog
• Windows Vista
• January, February, March, April, August and September
• Huge piles of unread books and unopened magazines
• Wasps
• IT nerds
• Dogs (most of them)
• Large monocultures of sweetcorn
• Office politics
• Hallowe’en
• Antibiotics
• Factory food
• Internet visionaries
• Athletes foot
• Going to the cinema
• Idiot ‘business people’ who think they understand strategy but are clueless
• Caravans (particularly blocking up the road for miles ahead)
• The tube