Today is Save Our Libraries Day, a national day of protest, action and awareness raising against library cuts. I’ve been using libraries for almost my entire life. I can just about (albeit hazily) remember being 3 or 4 and going for the first time to the children’s corner in Lincoln library’s junior section. Three brand [...]
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Save the libraries!
February 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Art/Culture, Politics
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Plum Pie
September 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Art/Culture, London
A celebration of our finest humorous writer? At a distinguished bookshop in Mayfair? Plum Pie: The Life & Work of PG Wodehouse With tours of Wodehousean Mayfair by a Lt-Col Murphy? How could a chap possibly miss such an opportunity? If anyone wants me, I’ll be playing bread-roll cricket at the Drones…
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Wholesomeness transcends cultural boundaries
July 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Art/Culture
Camp Quest, the summer “freethought” camp, has come to Britain and is running right now. Some of the froth in the media has been amusing (particularly the hilarious Dawkins sets up kids’ camp to groom atheists in the Sunday Times) and there have been plenty of mistaken statements to the effect that the camp was [...]
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Infinite Summer
May 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Art/Culture, Technology
… or “why I love Twitter #237″. One of my Twitter friends (or followers, if you prefer) is the groovy solo bassist Steve Lawson. In one of his tweets he mentioned his namesake. I’m a nosey Twitterer, and regularly follow links to people I’ve never heard of, so I clicked over to this other Steve [...]
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Save Bletchley Park
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · History, Politics
No idea whether these Number 10 petitions ever work, but this is a vitally important campaign… Saving Bletchley Park Would we ever have to petition the government to save the Cabinet War Rooms? No, of course not. In terms of British history, Bletchley Park is every bit as important.
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Preserve Auschwitz!
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · History
Cash crisis threat to Auschwitz (BBC) That’s worrying. I’m amazed that a site of such historical importance could ever find itself in such a precarious financial position… it’s on the UNESCO list of world heritage sites, and Poland is now in the EU, so how can there possibly be a lack of funding? The mind [...]
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Does Satch have a case?
December 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Art/Culture, Guitar, Music
Although my days of listening wide-eyed to Joe Satriani are long gone (I haven’t really enjoyed anything he’s done since 1995) I was still pretty surprised to see his name appear on the BBC website. Satch vs Coldplay in plagiarism case? Being hopelessly curious about this sort of thing, I decided to put my ears [...]
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Oliver Postgate 1925-2008
December 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Art/Culture, TV/Radio
Bagpuss and Ivor creator dies (BBC) A man whose quirky, homemade short films can still take me to a nostalgic place where I’m eight years old, all is right in the world and there’s going to be lots of snow on the ground when I wake up tomorrow.
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Sorry to go on about this, but…
November 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Art/Culture, Politics, TV/Radio
In light of my own plea to “JUST LET IT LIE!” I suppose this is a bit hypocritical, but I couldn’t resist recommending the responses of two of my favourite comedy writers to the Granddaughtergate Scandal… David Mitchell – How little Britain found its voice Charlie Brooker – Want a rush of empowerment? Join the [...]
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