The BBC News website reports on the Union General Meeting at the LSE SU. Sadly, people are still throwing paper, but the BBC article does make it clear that it’s only a section who like doing that and that, despite an unholy alliance of neoSinclairists and AU people, an amount of serious debate is going […]

The UK CEO of Weber Shandwick and my überboss, Colin Byrne, has added me to his blogroll. His blog is at ByrneBabyByrne.com.
Colin has been doing PR for one year less that I’ve been alive and, whether you agree with him or not, has a unique set of experiences that make him an interesting blogger to […]

Today’s rain caused me to stop at Foyle’s (not that I need much of an excuse) and I picked up a copy of The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers edited by David Wootton. I would have given a lot to have lived in those times, when it seems that the polity was alive with debate […]

My home team, Yeovil Town, are playing Blackpool tomorrow in the playoffs. Apparently Yeovil had to ask for more tickets and are bringing 40,000 (yes, forty thousand) people tomorrow. Or so my brother says. I remember seeing Yeovil in the Vauxhall Conference (I was a season ticket holder once upon a time) so it’d be […]

I was delighted to see this EDM submitted about David MacLean, the MP for Penrith and the Border. Mr MacLean suffers from multiple sclerosis and, while I don’t think I agree with any of his politics, for newspapers to attack him for using his MP’s allowance legitimately to allow him to effectively represent his constituents […]

The advertised part of Antony Gormley’s Blind Light exhibition at the Hayward is a room full of very dense fog. It is a remarkable installation, but of that more later. There are other parts to it which are worth seeing by themselves.
I’ve seen a lot of exhibitions that seek to use the viewer as part […]

I live in an anti-social behaviour dispersal area in the City of Westminster, near the Channel Four building. For people who don’t know the area, it’s about five minutes’ walk from Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. The dispersal area is a result of young people wearing hoods standing around on the street. […]

There is a lot of stuff on the blogosphere about the mainstream media (or MSM as the more conspiratorially-minded refer to it) and bias of the BBC. My principal sources of information are the media - I hear things on the grapevine, but that’s pretty mediated, I read Hansard and watch BBC Parliament - and […]

I recently signed up to last.fm1. It is a great site - you find music similar to your current tastes. You can either just plug in names of bands and do various searches around that, or put a piece of software that notes what you listen to and how often (yes, it does sound a […]

This is, without question, brilliant. I know it’s rather doing the rounds, but I found it on A General Theory of Rubbish. I think one quote in particular is going to stick
people like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign, selling pencils from a cup.
I went to Cogers […]