Posted in charity, cliques, enmity, environment, friends, garden, here, lies, location, loyalty, near, society, understanding on April 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
Our garden share has fallen through, unfortunately. The circumstances are quite complicated to relate, but a précis would go something like this. Our sharer—the elderly woman with a garden—turned out to be simultaneously unwilling to keep in touch and also very demanding, a headily passive-aggressive mix. Last time we spoke a few weeks ago everyting [...]
Bloggerheads has recently written yet more about the scandalous behaviour and recalcitrance of Patrick Mercer MP (a blogpost from which I take my title). Mercer’s involvement with all sorts of untrustworthy characters is the gift that keeps on giving for the political blogging community. Without wishing to repeat any of Tim’s excellent ongoing investigative work [...]
Posted in anger, body, class_warfare, cliques, commerce, dickheads, emotions, employees, industry, loyalty, morality, opinion, organisations, person, politics, rants, services, sleep, society on October 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
One of the tasks you have to attend to (desultorily) when you move house is changing one’s address with banks, utility companies and now the DVLA. Last night I had just finished addressing envelopes for both licence and car registration, when I heard on the radio that the postal workers’ strike would begin tomorrow viz [...]
Posted in anger, art, cinema, climate, emotions, environment, experience, fear, inspiration, location, loyalty, person, politics, society on March 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’d seen the Age of Stupid before last night’s premiere, being involved very tangentially at one point. I remember when the lights went up at the end on that occasion, and many of the people in the audience—the majority of them not having seen the film before in its entirety—were choking back tears at the [...]
Posted in blogs, charity, climate, columnists, communication, diary, dickheads, editing, environment, experience, idiom, instant_messaging, journalism, language, location, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, parties, rants, research, society, spelling, syntax, technology, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on February 18th, 2009 1 Comment »
I used to love The Register. It stood up for digital rights, stuck the knife into governmental IT projects, shone the light on ID cards and gave due attention to the largely pointless and wasteful intrusions of technology in the form of CCTV or the database state. But for the past twelve months or so, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, blogs, columnists, crime, dickheads, journalism, loyalty, media, nu-media, opinion, politics, rants, society on February 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Nobody writes polemics quite like Monbiot’s tirade against Hazel Blears (via many, including looby):
The only consistent political principle I can deduce from these positions is slavish obedience to your masters. Theyworkforyou sums up your political record thus: “Never rebels against their party in this parliament.” Yours, Hazel, is the courage of the sycophant, the courage [...]
Posted in blogs, class_warfare, cliques, commerce, employees, establishment, freedom, industry, journalism, loyalty, media, money, morality, nu-media, person, politics, society, websites on February 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Late last night I ran out of time and, fearful of the onset of a migraine, didn’t commit this to blog publication. Political bloggers far better than I— especially septicisle—have summarized events better than I might.
Much as feminism is first and foremost about equality and not about misandry, the anger at imported labour at Lindsey [...]
Guantanemo Bay is scheduled for closure and aid is being distributed where it does most good rather than by the extent to which it conforms to an ideology. But let’s not forget that, although Obama is now president of the United States, the president of the United States remains president of the United States.
It’ll [...]
Two days ago, I said to K:
Construction and financial firms have suffered so far, but the high street’s been unscathed. That’s what we’ve been seeing, and that’s why everyone you interview in voxpops about the credit munch always says “it’s not really affected me yet, although I’m sure it will, haha!”
My guess is that it’s [...]
Posted in art, cultural, entertainment, far_away, humour, idiom, language, literature, location, loyalty, media, radio, semantics, society on November 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
K. and I were just listening to A Good Day for Airplay, a podcast from Montreal. For some time, assuming the presenter was from somewhere on the US east coast, I decided his accent was probably that of a native-born Israeli. But realising a few months back that it was actually Québecois made sudden sense [...]
