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Endings and beginnings
This is very possibly my last post on this blog. Big changes are happening. There will be another blog, and another site, not too far down the road. I started this site five years ago when my last book, Cleaning Up, came out. Thank you for sticking around. It’s been a sometimes tough but fascinating […]
Damien Hirst at Tate Modern – don’t judge him by today’s standards
July 9, 2012
This is my first blog post in about six months. There’s a reason for this. Something very unpleasant happened to me a year ago which has had a fairly devastating effect on my creative work. This has leached through over time and it’s only with hindsight that I’ve realised just how damaging it’s been. I […]
Talking about addiction with Westminster Skeptics
January 11, 2012
Westminster Skeptics, convened by media lawyer and journalist David Allen Green, is one of the best places to go and hear interesting talks. I’ve been going for a couple of years now. Recently I’ve seen Juliet Jacques talk about transgender issues and the media, and Paul Lewis talking about the riots. Longer ago, I saw […]
I don’t like going in taxis. There, I said it.
December 28, 2011
Help me, here, folks. Am I the only one on the planet who actively dislikes going in taxis? Just to be clear, I have never been attacked in one. I’ve had a few run-ins, mostly abroad, but these tended to be rows over the fare rather than my dignity or safety. So I don’t have […]
Posted in: Life
Remind me why I should pay for your booze?
November 20, 2011
Again, a period of neglect. I have intermittently been forgetting that I even have a blog. In my neck of the media woods, I am drowning in opinion and I can’t see that adding mine will help anyone. But, you know, it might ‘lead to something.’ That reminds me of something that I retweeted the […]
Posted in: Life
Pod Delusion 101 – Abortion
September 9, 2011
Here I am again in the Pod Delusion, episode 101. This time I’m talking about abortion in the light of the failed Dorries amendments. The excellent Pod Delusion is celebrating its second anniversary next week.
Blown away by Tracey Emin
August 21, 2011
Yesterday I went to the Tracey Emin exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which has just over a week to run. I was totally blown away. On top of that, I realised, with a feeling of regret and almost shame, that over the years I have missed huge chunks of her work. This was echoed by […]
December 31, 2012
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