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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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.
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… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
I was very fortunate, last night, not to be living near any shops. The rioters got to within a few hundred yards of me but no nearer. After five hours on Twitter, watching buildings being burned to the ground on the news, I was starting to wonder where the army were. Eventually I dragged myself… [Read more…]
July 25, 2011
I was very sad but not surprised to hear about the death of Amy Winehouse at 27. Whatever the circumstances this week, it’s fair to say she probably spent too much of her life surrounded by god-awful yes-people and hangers on bearing as many courtesy wraps and pills as they could carry. If I was… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
Late late late – here’s my photography featured on the Printspace blog. They also used one of my shots in their exhibition last September.
July 19, 2011
I thought I’d put this up before. Cleaning Up is now on Kindle! It should be in other electronic editions too.
June 11, 2011
On Thursday I went up to Manchester to talk to Manchester Skeptics about addiction. On the way, I experienced a dreaded awful Pendolino train which was a sort of vomitorium. (See what I did there? Yes, I know.) Luckily, the most excellent Danny from Newcastle Skeptics came and met me for tea when I finally… [Read more…]
January 11, 2012
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