David Waywell

Spent too much of my Friday filtering my rage through a Microsoft cartoon strip which I might post later today. My anger at Microsoft hasn’t been helped by today’s emails which contain quite cheerful posts from them telling me all the great things I can do with my “new” Surface Pro. I had another email […]

It’s so typical of my luck this year… It’s only a couple of weeks ago since I wrote a piece in which I defended Bill Gates against all the toxicity that’s being directed at him and his charity work. I said at the time that I didn’t consider Microsoft one of those “bad” companies and […]

I have a new piece over at Reaction (clicky here) about the politics around the violence that is sure to define the last weeks of this election campaign. I was quite pleased with it, pleased too that it got a retweet by Adam Boulton. I have these moments when I actually feel like I’m part […]

Writing needs to be done regularly. Today, for example, felt like a struggle, though by the end of 1000 words, I was back in the groove I’d lost over the long weekend. I guess it’s one of those small rules about creativity that you learn by doing and doing regularly. Which is why I’m hoping […]

So, the new head honcho at the BBC, Tim Davie, wants to cut “left-wing comedy” from the schedule. It’s hardly a surprising decision, though hugely mistaken, but not because of the “left-wing” aspect. Reports this morning say that Davie wants less comedy which is “unfairly biased against the Tories, Donald Trump and Brexit”. Might it […]

Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. Every day there seems to be a different reason why I didn’t blog earlier, longer, better… The podcast appeared yesterday. A bare 25 minutes of recording before Tim’s phone battery died but the effort that went into editing was disproportionate to the result. I mentioned last week that my speakers had packed […]

Yes, it’s the podcast almost nobody has been asking me for…

Two days rest have perked me up. Or I hope they have. We’re recording a podcast in a couple of hours and I’m trusting that my brain won’t be too fogged up. August is my least favourite month in terms of the weather – though I’m delighted that we seem to have had it a […]

Forgive the general crapness of today’s blog post/diary entry. I’m forcing myself to write a little so I don’t allow myself to get… distracted. I stayed up very late (i.e. about 4am) a few nights last week to watch the RNC, thinking I might write about them. I didn’t but that didn’t stop the late […]

Or just relaxing. Just for today. It’s raining, cold, and it’s a Friday heading into a Bank Holiday weekend… So I’m having the day off. No drawing. No writing. I might, however, be playing Wasteland 3 which has just appeared on Game Pass. Okay, I am playing Wasteland 3 which has just appeared on Game […]

Not so many years ago, when I had something remotely like a future, I was seriously into films. I’d always been a huge movie watcher, but it got a bit problematic with the appearance of DVDs. The ability to own high quality versions of my favourite films was a temptation too far. I subscribed to […]

Late again and another brief update. This time I blame the penguins…