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…]
April 30, 2011
Right. Finally. In response to the hashtag #drwho, here’s the other polaroid from that fateful day in 19**. It’s a companion piece to this post and accompanying image of me with Eric Morecambe. Have a lovely Saturday.
April 30, 2011
I’m ba-ack! Drowned out a little by a certain wedding, here’s the latest Pod delusion, including my piece on censorship of internet comments. I find myself increasingly nauseated by the wretched snark and spite you sometimes find on the lower half of the internet, especially, sadly, in the Guardian comments section. But what to do?… [Read more…]
March 16, 2011
I’ve been in a sort of survival mode during 2011 so far, which is why I haven’t blogged. Media kerfuffles have dropped way down my life list. I’ve been missing them though. And I’ve had quite a few headdesk moments following the ‘feminists vs porn’ debate. Here’s an interview with me by Bridget Freer in… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011
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… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
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