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The Tomlinson case is a symptom of a wider malaise in British society that I find deeply troubling. Protest is not a crime. Thinking about protesting is not a crime. I THOUGHT about attending the protest at Scotland Yard this week. Does that mean I should have expected Tom Cruise to come crashing through my window in a Minority Report style pre-cog bust?
I’ve discovered my photographic forté: local rag reportage. We had a bit of snow in the UK this week. I took advantage of the first snowfall on Monday, took a walk into town, and a few photos along the way. My local paper spotted them on Flickr and asked if they could publish one or [...]
The BBC drove me to it. It’s not just Gaza - but that was the final straw. The BBC’s eccentric, inconsistent, cravenly partial decision not to screen the DEC Gaza Appeal is just the latest sign that the world’s best broadcaster has become a weakened, withered, cowering institution. From sexed-up dossiers to mis-named Blue Peter [...]
Why do computers have the longevity of a hamster? My Sony VAIO was two years old this week, and just died. It had been limping along for months. Slowing down, running out of memory, crashing. I switched to Macs in the office meanwhile, which are lovely and reliable and not virus-crashy. Today I picked up the [...]
Well, here we are, dear reader - it’s 2009 already. Did you celebrate with friends and fizz? I almost did this year for once, but then decided that, from the provincial setting of Reed Towers, it would be easier to get to Mordor on New Year’s Eve than the party in North London I was [...]
Did you survive the festivities? We had a good one at Reed Towers, and enjoyed the patter of tiny feet around the estate. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler, as W.C. Fields would say. I’m now also emerging from the seasonal sugar coma induced by all those Cadbury’s Heroes, mince pies and [...]
The spiritual leader of a fifth of the world’s population is at it again, spreading seasonal tidings of hatred and fear. Pope Benedict, showing as much compassion as during his Hitler Youth days, took the opportunity for a spot of gay-bashing in his annual address to the Curia this year. We may be neck-deep in [...]
I regret not being able to make it to the Nice Jazz Festival this year for a number of reasons. Top of the list is that Leonard Cohen was performing there. Unfortunately for him - but fortunately for the fans - he was the victim of a $5m embezzlement that forced him out of his [...]
I know. It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been busy. I have launch fever. In the last few weeks I’ve launched a new business, two websites and some new features on Publishing Talk (a bookstore and a jobs section). Now I’m relaunching this blog, with a new theme that aggregates more of [...]
