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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…

Stayed up far too late last night so today has been a long fizzle of nothing. I’ve drawn two cartoons and packaged up my Surface. Other than that, meh… I feel tired, which never bodes well for the day. I can’t think when this tired. Even coffee didn’t wake me up. Despite all of this, […]

You probably know by now that I am not, by any measure, a nationalist. On my better days, I don’t mind being British and I can even take a little pride in British accomplishments, though I’d never – and I mean never – get a flag tattooed on my leg. If I were ever in […]

Before I get into today’s post, a link to the piece I wrote yesterday for Reaction on Trump and October vaccine. Right. Now. Today… Sigh. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in gods. I don’t believe in ghosts. I don’t even believe in luck. I belive in science and technology and the progress of humankind… […]

Bit late today but not so late that I can’t wade into a debate I don’t care about, about a music festival I don’t watch, about music I’m largely indifferent to, and sensibilities that usually wind me up the wrong way. I’m talking about the suggestion that they might dump ‘Rule Britannia’ from this years’ […]

Anybody born in Britain in the years after the war were taught one vital lesson. Whatever the peril we faced, there would be some Brits who would stand up, sort things out, get us through it. American’s call it “The Greatest Generation” but we don’t really have a term for it. “The Few” is reserved […]