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ATTN ALL WRITERS: Lobby at House of Commons Tomorrow

From the lovely Sarah McIntyre, who is also responsible for the beautiful poster: Libraries are massively under attack right now! Support school libraries with trained librarians, this stuff’s IMPORTANT!!! There’s a lot of information in the world, and we’ve got a whole generation of kids who think Google is the only way to find anything, that [...]

Have a great day!

I am doomed, a cipher set adrift in the universe by the modern equivalent of Stanley Kubrick’s psycho-computer Hal singing Daisy Daisy as it pushes me gently out towards the vast empty universe and certain death. My Mac’s hard drive is buggered. For anyone out there looking suddenly smug about their depressingly functional PC, may [...]

Please sir, could I have some more hyperbole?

    I have talked about blurbs in the past, but it’s been a while, and if something’s worth saying once, I always think it’s worth saying a.) at greater and greater volume and b.) over and over until your victim is bludgeoned into agreeing with you. So here are a few thoughts about blurbs: [...]

America’s sex life under threat by Republican goons.

Once again, me hearties, the news this week makes me proud proud proud to be a human bean. While the Republican party in America swings so far to the right that they’re in danger of sailing the ship of state off the edge of the known world, our own dear Tory minister for health has [...]

Cabin lust.

I couldn’t use the actual title of my new-favourite-website-on-the-planet as the title for this blog, because, well, because I’m going to attract the wrong sort of spam in any case. But it’s worth it. And you’ll know what i mean instantly when you click on this here link. So here I am, at the end of [...]

A cheery little something for the weekend.

I came across this poem by Roger McGough only this morning. It made me laugh, and I thought, ‘I’d like to meet that Roger McGough. He sounds like my kinda guy.’ SURVIVOR Every day, I think about dying. About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off [...]

Megan Stammers and her teacher.

Rarely a day goes by that I don’t wonder why we bother making up stories. Perhaps it’s because all the good ones are taken, by real life. As anyone who lives in the UK, and possibly the world, knows by now, Megan Stammers is a 15-year-old schoolgirl who is currently at large in Europe with [...]

Boot Camp.

It had to be done. You know how you start thinking about something and you think about it and you think about it until you realize that it’s only a matter of time till you do it? In the olden days it was sex and drugs and changing jobs and moving to London and worse. [...]

Life is better (and worse) than you think.

There’s a lot of serious illness in my family. Too much. It’s the sort of thing that makes a person always tensed for bad news. Waiting for the next shoe to drop, however, there’s time for taking stock. Nothing so maudlin as counting one’s blessings, but just a few reminders about how things could be [...]

God may be a toad.

It’s been a lousy week for American-Middle East relations, due in large part to an idiotic anti-Islamic film made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian ex-convict gas station attendant living in LA named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula with a long history of arrest for fake bank accounts, fraudulent cheques and dealing methamphetamine. Not exactly a representative of the [...]