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This blog is no longer being updated, darling. 19 Jul 2011 | 10:44 am
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Adam Curtis’ new series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – some speculations 31 Mar 2011 | 10:44 am
According to a tweet by Charlie Brooker, Adam Curtis’ new documentary series is going to be called All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. I don’t know what it means but Brooker is a very credi...
Why do local politicians have to treat voters like idiots? 28 Mar 2011 | 06:55 am
I live in the Cale Green area of Stockport. Until recently we had three Liberal Democrat councillors. Then in February, two of them – Roy Driver and David White – left the LibDems to stand under the b...
Express front page: Amanda Holden’s earthquake pension joy 14 Mar 2011 | 10:58 pm
There’s nothing especially unusual about the Daily Express producing an entirely confusing and off-beam front-page. This, after all, is the paper that splashed with Princess Diana for the best part of...
Banter RIP 29 Jan 2011 | 05:15 am
It’s been a bad week for banter. But I’ve had my suspicions about the concept for a while and should banter suddenly die, as it rightfully must, its passing will not be mourned round my house. It str...
My top several things of 2010 1 Jan 2011 | 07:28 am
It’s the last day of the year, so here are my top several things of 2010. I haven’t bothered to create an artificial five or ten of everything, partly because my consumption of cultural artefacts does...
A sizeable post about Roy Hodgson and Liverpool 31 Dec 2010 | 05:38 am
I’ve never previously written here about Liverpool FC, since I figure not that many people are interested. But I can’t hold back any longer. I have to get it off my chest. So here goes. At the end of...
Mick Hucknall, Sex (Pistols), Baudrillard, Thora Hird. 4 Dec 2010 | 05:41 am
Did Mick Hucknall actually sleep with 3,000 women in three years during the 1980s, as the Guardian claims today? Plainly the mathematics, if you care to consider them, which I don’t especially want to...
Why is Kelvin MacKenzie on Question Time for the fourth time this year? 19 Nov 2010 | 07:39 am
I don’t really like Kelvin MacKenzie. He’s a loudmouthed, right-wing, rabble-rousing reactionary. He’s also someone who seems unwilling to recognise the universally accepted truth about the cause of t...
49 days. The average amount of time it takes for a freelance journalist to get paid. 1 Oct 2010 | 03:10 am
I’ve been a freelance journalist for a little over a year now and can’t help noticing that it’s taking a hell of a lot longer to get paid than it did when I had a full-time job. In fact, I’ve found th...
