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Me aged 10 holding Eric Morecambe’s pint
January 3, 2011
Here is an evocatively faded polaroid of me aged 10 in 19** with Eric Morecambe. It was taken at a charity cricket match at a stately home somewhere in Leicestershire. I’m posting this in response to the hashtag #lametofame on Twitter. Enjoy.
Street harassment and a new year cliffhanger
January 1, 2011
First of all, happy new year to you all. My readers over the past week will know that things chez TG, like chez everyone else, don’t always go as planned. And so last night, which was of course New Year’s Eve. Sometime in my 30s I stopped getting paranoid about this one night of the […]
Culture of exclamation – Why the commentariat needs to slip itself a valium now and again
January 9, 2011
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I’ve been meaning to blog about the professionally outraged for a while now. With great regularity, a social issue with strong opinions on either side will raise its head in the media, and the whole world goes berserk. Well, for ‘whole world’ read people in the media who follow each other on Twitter. I am […]