Posted in amerika, belief, christianity, cliques, enmity, establishment, friends, geography, here, location, love, metaphor, organisations, people, politics, pragmatism, race, responsibility, society, understanding on June 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
My country has no flag. Its has no national anthem, although some of its citizens are partial to folk music and Morris dancing. No seething, populous crowds cheer my country on, with loud or incoherent cries in the street. Its citizens do not rally round meaningless symbols and engineer fake outrage at nonexistent bans, nor [...]
Posted in belief, body, class_warfare, cliques, diary, election, enmity, entertainment, establishment, experience, fatigue, housing, lies, opinion, people, person, philosophy, politics, pragmatism, responsibility, society, understanding on May 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
The dust has yet to settle; yet any election blogpost is already out of date. Other more savvy political commentators than me (and probably ones with more time on their hands) like Obsolete and Anton Vowl have already digested much of the results and have largely pre-empted much of the points I might make.
When I [...]
Posted in cars, cliques, crime, cycle_accessories, cycles, enmity, opinion, people, rants, responsibility, safety, society, transport on April 10th, 2010 4 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before how much I love my yellow cycling jacket, but seasons change and eventually it becomes time to put away clothes better suited for the wet. The sun has started to show a more regular appearance, and I have a dowdier pacamac which I can stash in my panniers for the times when [...]
Posted in cotswolds, councils, cycles, environment, establishment, location, responsibility, roads, safety, society, transport, weather on February 13th, 2010 No Comments »
After avoiding most of the worst of the snow and the frost I managed to come off my bike on ice this week. Astonishingly, it wasn’t the fault of the local councils through not gritting. I mean: they haven’t gritted, didn’t grit, won’t grit; they’re too busy trumpeting how low council tax is to actually [...]
Posted in climate, cliques, consumption, crime, education, enmity, environment, location, people, politics, pragmatism, research, responsibility, society, truth, understanding on December 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Christmastime and Christmastide wait for no man, and there’s been plenty to prevent me from following up on my doom-laden thoughts about COP15 and what might happen if it failed: which it did. Before 2009 draws entirely to a close it’s probably worth a few brief words on the subject.
It’s important to acknowledge from the [...]
Posted in buildings, cars, central_heating, climate, coaches, consumption, cotswolds, cycles, decor, environment, journeys, location, online_applications, people, public, research, responsibility, society, technology, time, trains, transport, understanding, web on December 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
Last year I discussed my carbon audit for 2008. I use The Carbon Account to keep as close a track of my personal carbon emissions as possible. This year I’ve been keeping a similar record, but the result is confused and a bit unimpressive: the bottom line is a CO2 equivalent of 2.8 tonnes. You [...]
Posted in climate, consumption, crime, diary, environment, experience, far_away, future, location, opinion, people, politics, responsibility, society, time on December 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Yesterday K and I were at The Wave in London, the march against climate change. There’s a climate march in December every year, but this year put every other year’s to shame. The police initially said around 20,000 people (having been argued up from “five crusties and a dog on a string”), but apparently refused [...]
Posted in blogs, death, emotions, establishment, interviews, journalism, media, nu-media, opinion, people, person, podcasting, politics, responsibility, right, society, war on February 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Speechification’s superb service to the nation has delivered The Human Button into my podcast tracking devicicule recently. It’s broadly speaking a nutritious slice of Reithian radio and very listenable, although just as establishment as milord would have loved to hear. The presenter Peter Hennessy is professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of [...]
Posted in buildings, cars, commerce, consumers, decor, dickheads, industry, insurance, location, near, opinion, people, public, rants, responsibility, society, transport on January 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
An open letter to the staff at Rug Doctor:
Dear Rug Doctors,
Having just returned, boiling with rage, from a failed attempt to hire one of your carpet cleaners from the local DIY centre, I’m writing to tell you that you’re idiots.
I appreciate that one would require proof of identity and reliability before letting someone hire one [...]
Posted in climate, environment, experience, far_right, gossip, journalism, location, media, opinion, overheard, people, politics, responsibility, society on December 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
“It’s funny how the Independent has policies that the general public don’t know about, but press officers all do.”
“Like?”
“Like how they never report anything about Greenpeace, and they’ll only report something about the Royal Family if it’s a marriage or a death. It’s policies like that which make the Independent what it is today, the [...]
