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“Swift and concrete answers please… “

by | 12 Jun 2013

The European commission’s vice-president, Viviane Reding, has sent a letter with seven detailed questions to the US attorney general, Eric Holder Jr, demanding explanations about Prism and other American data snooping programmes. Here are the seven questions....

Droning on and on…

by | 12 Jun 2013

I’m trying to love you all, really I am. There’s a website I love to bits called Consume Consume. It consists of nothing but hundreds of strange, quirky, funny and invariably moving, photographs. The images are all captivating, but the thing that really...
The Fat Air Traffic Controller

The Fat Air Traffic Controller

by | 11 Jun 2013

Brussels (inevitably) in a tail-spin Can’t wait to see how this pans out in the UK national press: the European Commission is about to unleash its ire by legally challenging member states for not implementing a significant change to air traffic control....
Jews go home

Jews go home

by | 8 Jun 2013

That got your attention, didn’t it? Not unlike the article in the Guardian, written by someone who calls himself Dani Dayan (whom I assume to be a cross between the head of the Israeli armed forces and their next attempt at Eurovision). This kind of thing is...
French Fried Movies

French Fried Movies

by | 7 Jun 2013

You can’t give it away… I used to think that maybe it was me. After all, Philip French is lauded far and wide as one of the great movie reviewers, writing for one of Britain’s great broadsheet newspapers and every now and again collecting an award...

It’s about time

by | 5 Jun 2013

Blimey. Has it been that long? All tuckered out I guess after my mate did for himself. Not that I was psyched in any way, just knackered from all the input/output. Happened to read a thing about Stephen Fry today, about how he tried suicide (again) last year. He said,...
The Internet is to blame

The Internet is to blame

by | 11 Mar 2013

Late last night, just before climbing the wooden hill to Sleepyville, I was having a brief-but-deep conversation with the missus about the usual: how utterly stupid the world appears to be. Like, how most of the people of Europe seem hell-bent on buggering up the EU;...

‘Bye Marty, and thanks for the invite

by | 20 Feb 2013

Sharing my two minute’s worth at Martin’s funeral yesterday: I’ve only got a couple of minutes, which isn’t much in the great scheme of things. After all, the universe is 13.77 billion years old. And it took the universe all that time to make a...

Bum notes

by | 12 Feb 2013

Ooh, ooh, ooh… How could I have forgotten Nina, Merle, Joe and The Chieftains? Sorry Mart – I do try my best. Plus, of course, there’s the rest of the fifteen hours’ worth, but these should cover it for now… Baltimore Nina Simone Thanks...

Notes on a life

by | 10 Feb 2013

Since my mate Marty’s demise, I’ve thunk, cried, giggled and raged about the loss of one of my dearest friends. During that time I’ve daydreamed about the outrageous and ridiculous things we’ve done together (not least of all sharing each...