O hai sleep deprivation. We meet again, my old enemy ( Read more... )

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Justin Welby, has "apologised" to the LGBTI community for continuing to throw them under the bus in the interests of Anglican unity ( Read more... )

I have recently learned that (a) leather jackets are definitely in at the moment, and (b) most "leather" jackets in the shops are not made of bits of dead cow treated with heinous chemicals but from a polymer, often polyurethane (?!). I've slightly coveted a leather jacket since I was a teenager. At the time I got a parka instead because I was a ( Read more... )

I have a half-written post from back on the 8 Feb when Yanis Varoufakis, ex-economist-in-residence at Valve and previously one of the more insightful bloggers on the Greek crisis, then freshly-minted Finance Minister of the Syriza Government, was starting on his European tour:It is impossible to reconcile the positions of all the main stakeholders ( Read more... )

Argh!

Scotland votes No to independence, after the unionist parties at Westminster promise much more devolution for Scotland very soon, cross my heart and hope to die. So obviously the first thing for the unionist parties at Westminster to do after the vote is ... to urgently implement devolution for England. What?

I've been fascinated by the ( Read more... )

Gah ( Read more... )

Just as I was thinking the phone hacking story was dying, along comes a reviver story. It's almost as if the news is being managed. This plus Wikileaks and Trafigura and all the ace ops data stuff makes me want to support The Guardian, especially given the eye-watering rate at which they're burning through the Scott Trust assets. But I don't ( Read more... )

Electoral reform is in the air, and so of course there is much talk of Additional Member Systems, Alternative Vote, Alternative Vote Plus, Single Transferable Vote, d'Hondt, Baby Stoat Wrangling and numerous other systems of vote-counting that go by confusingly different names but are essentially the same as those but with subtle differences that ( Read more... )

I am a breezy person who likes to say yaka-wow.

What?

Well, there's a typo in Baroness Greenfield's latest puff (or puff-adder?) piece in The Times, and it's turning in to a memeOn the whole Royal Institution debacle, I note briefly ( Read more... )

Sad how grief can cloud the mind. Stephen Spielberg to Entertainment Weekly on Michael Jackson:Just as there will never be another Fred Astaire or Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley, there will never be anyone comparable to Michael Jackson.
Err, Mr Spielberg ... you've rather undermined that "not comparable" bit by ... you know, that thing you did in the ( Read more... )