Monthly Archives: April 2010
America’s Take On Bigotgate
It’s about time that America got revenge on the UK for us laughing at supreme brainbox George W Bush so often over the years. The perception over here is that Americans have about as much interest in foreign affairs as … Continue reading
Filed under Election, Media, Politics, Television
Follow The Leaders
Only a short entry tonight, unfortunately, because I’ve been riveted to the coverage of the final Leaders’ Debate and it’s getting late. While watching the broadcast, my initial impression was that Clegg had won. Even though I thought he came … Continue reading
Filed under Election, News, Politics, Television
Brown’s Black Wednesday
It’s rather ironic, given Gillian Duffy’s surname, that the Prime Minister ended up begging her for mercy. As the television, radio and internet go bonkers over Gordon Brown’s encounter with the 65 year old Grandmother, I thought I’d point out … Continue reading
What The Sun Thinks Of Its Readers
The Sun’s editorial today was the usual copy-and-paste routine about a hung Parliament causing the world to explode, and the Labour Party being more useless than Iain Dowie in a Mr Universe competition. But it did contain a flash of … Continue reading
Tribalism II: The Revenge
Tribalism increasingly bores me. It’s ruining debate. I’m not talking about the laugh-a-minute, knockabout, playful fun of supporting your favourite team and enjoying a friendly rivalry with your opponents. I’m talking about the overly blinkered version, where nastiness… Oh wait, … Continue reading
Tribalism
Tribalism increasingly bores me. It’s ruining debate. I’m not talking about the laugh-a-minute, knockabout, playful fun of supporting your favourite team and enjoying a friendly rivalry with your opponents. I’m talking about the overly blinkered version, where nastiness takes over … Continue reading
Filed under Election, Media, Politics, Sport, Videogames
The Next Chapter
A bit of a status update. I’m still waiting for feedback from one of the big London literary agencies on the full manuscript of Certainty that they (surprisingly) requested. I’ve just started writing the sequel in the meantime, which is … Continue reading
Filed under Writing
Sequel Time!
The blank page is scary. Thankfully, it hasn’t been blank for a week. I’ve started “the next thing”, just getting my handwritten first page down in a Word document. It’s unpolished and rubbish, but also exciting to have got going. … Continue reading
Urban Escape
Only a short entry tonight, but it’s charged with COUNTRYSIDE FEAR. Yes, I’m seriously urbanised. Having lived in cities all my life, the idea of spending a weekend in rural Devon with no Internet and no Virgin Megastore (aside from … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Old Age Politicking
So, after the rumoured explosive revelations about Clegg’s expenses turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, tonight saw the second Leaders’ Debate, and it proved to be a more entertaining encounter than last week’s – a more … Continue reading
