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Saturday, April 30, 2011

look at this: I think it's gone sceptic

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You'll recall I provided a few links to Robert Llewellyn's Carpool a while back - I've caught a few of the shows following its...

panem et circenses

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I'm not going to tackle the subject of the Royal Wedding face-on as it would be a) the longest blog post ever and b) a torrential outp...
Friday, April 29, 2011

the revolution will not be televised

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Not being subject to the mass outbreak of flag-waving Stockholm Syndrome that seems to have gripped the rest of the nation in the run-up to...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

technical hitch

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Reading Martin Amis's piece on Christopher Hitchens in the Guardian prompted a few thoughts, the first being: Christ, get a room, boys ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

the last book I read

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The Light Of Day by Graham Swift. George Webb is an ex-cop, thrown off the force after being caught coercing a witness to try to secure a c...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

christ on a bike

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As it was such a nice day on Friday I thought I'd take the mountain bike out for its first spin of the year. Plus, what better way to c...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

i don't beliiieeeeeve it!

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There was an interesting article in the New Statesman this week, which basically asked the question of various prominent people who profes...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

the only way is ethics

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My getting to work timing was pretty much spot on yesterday morning: late enough to catch the start of Start The Week after the 9 o'clo...

the last book I read

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's some time in the 21st century in what used to be Los Angeles, and Hiro Protagonist is delivering a ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

dead good

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One thing I do remember observing in the ill-fated phantom book review of the other day was that the thing of someone dying and leaving som...
Monday, April 11, 2011

no whey

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You'll recall that back in the halcyon days of cheese racing , when we were featured in Kerrang! and harboured crazy dreams of one day ...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

dogs must be carried on escalator

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Spotted while driving from Usk to Pontypool yesterday - a new entry in the series Amusing Road Sign Noun/Verb Confusion . This one said ...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

a little whine

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Just heard this on the Masters golf coverage - one of the American commentators alluding to Miguel Ángel Jiménez and his legendary fondness...

mull this over

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On the way back from Usk I popped over to Morrison's in Rogerstone to do a bit of shopping, and being in an expansive sunny Saturday so...

usk not what your country can do for you

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Well, it's a bit late now, but if I'd known about it at the time this tip might have helped me recover yesterday's lost book re...
Friday, April 08, 2011

headline of the day

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I think this one has been doing the rounds since earlier in the week, but it bears repeating: as you can see if you look at the URL for this...

the last book I read

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The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe. Well, fuckety fuckety fuckety bollocky fuck. I wrote a comprehensive and perceptive review of thi...
Monday, April 04, 2011

grayling failing

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I bow to no man in my admiration for AC Grayling , who I reckon is the most intelligent and articulate of the celebrity atheists, and is cer...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

the last book I read

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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Strewth, what a a bunch of larrikins and galahs. Here's the Pickles family, in dire financial straits after ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

moussa koussa say: eh-oh

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These things always seem obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but clearly, as this week's events involving Libyan Foreign Minister Mou...
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