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Stalemate: PR and PR, Ice Cream, Bananas and Fudge

Hermeneutics

One of the most puzzling features of the current unstoppable wave of political punditry that is flooding all channels and outlets at the moment (including this one of course) is the peculiar propensity of commentators to feel qualified to extrapolate from the election results the Manifest Will of Britain.  "The people have voted for change", "The people have told Gordon Brown that he has got to go" , "The people are saying that they don't really trust any one party", "The people h...

How I will vote…

It's none of your business. How you will vote is none of my business. This country cannot proceed along any lines that make sense or promise hope unless we can all get along no matter how we vote and unless we respect the primacy of the secret ballot. Having said which, open and free discussion of the people, parties and policies up for consideration is all part of democracy too.

© Tony Husband 2010 for Stephenfry.com

What Right Have I to Blog?

Should I even be writing this blog? In a free...

Back to Britain

My four months of self-imposed exile has come to an end. I went to America to write my book. To Los Angeles in fact. I know some people will instantly shriek in horror at the idea of a someone going to Los Angeles to write a book, usually those who either have never been there themselves or who don't know the place well, but we shan't have that argument all over again.  I wrote a blog on that very subject some ago. Let me just say the town suited me perfectly. I was up in the Hollywood...

Apple's iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch

On the Mother Ship. a self-confessed apple fanboy gets finger time with the ipad—and face time with Steve Jobs

Article "Apple's iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch" published on Thursday 1st April 2010 in TIME Magazine" – Time Magazine headline.

It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain...

UnPacking my iPad

Opening my new Apple iPad. Forgive the trembling hand holding the camera. I was excited.

iPad About

iPad About

Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I've joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch. I've watched all the past ones, downloaded the Quicktime movies and marvelled as Apple's leader has stood before an ovating faithful and announced the switch to Intel, the birth of iPod, the miniMac, the iTunes Store, OS X, iPhoto, the swan's neck iMac, the Shuffle, Apple retail stores, the iPhone, the titanium powerbook, Garageband, the App Store...

Ave atque Vale

Well now, this is a sort of farewell. An au revoir more than an adieu but a valediction all the same. This morning I switch off most of my connections with the outside world, for I have work to do. I must deliver a book to my publishers by the end of April or my soul and testicles will be forfeit.

Some people can write with ease in whatever circumstances they find themselves. Up a tree, on a bus, in a log cabin, a steamy-windowed café or a tropical beach. Some don't mind noise, distraction or ...

Social Media – A Force for Good

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Location: London

Stephen Fry, Biz Stone, Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter; and Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn will discuss the phenomenon of social media and its future impact.

You can also join the conversation by posting a question for any of the speakers – all you need to do is add #svuk to your question on Twitter.

This event forms part of NESTA's Silicon Valley comes to the UK event programme.

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Twillionth

An event has been triggered in the continuum. The Twimline has been compromised.

Watch Stephen Fry along with 1 million followers on Twitter.

Produced by SamFry for StephenFry.com

Visual Effects by Simon Whalley, Framestore, London.