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Championes… Keighley 32, Workington 12. Yeah.
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I have just finished reading The Stones of London: A History in 12 Buildings. Not a gem by any means – far too much broadbrush Tory-ish and not much of an edge – but I did think he had a couple of good points. One was in the chapter on Keeling House and Denys Lasdun,…
Read More Not the kittens!Throwing out the bums
What if the entire political response to the Great Financial Crisis could be summed up as “Punch the incumbent”? Americans threw out George Bush. Obviously this was overdetermined, but still, they did it in the winter of 2008. If you look around the democratic world, what seems to make the most difference is timing –…
Read More Throwing out the bumsmy love affair with GSM hardware
Even more trivial than the last one! Some mobiles I loved. Samsung ??? This was the first of them all in 2000-2001. A weird reverse-clamshell design that very rapidly developed dodgy contacts in the joint. But eh, I had a real, lasting relationship and I could send her texts from the union! Siemens c55i Neat…
Read More my love affair with GSM hardwareit wasn’t Thursday, and still isn’t, so…
So there was this thread with music. It went like this, and then like this, and this, then this, this, this, and finally this. Also a fair amount of stuff about shwi-vet Erik Lund and the most popular man in Britain. But mostly music. Meanwhile, someone defined a last.fm tag for “oh yeah this is…
Read More it wasn’t Thursday, and still isn’t, so……like it’s 2008!
Having fixed the Viktorfeed, I notice with some pleasure that the activity levels continue to decline. It looks like the last gang in town is “Reliable Unique Services”, ICAO:RLB, an alias for Rus Aviation, operating five Il-76, a couple of which served with various version of Click Airways.
Read More …like it’s 2008!Sometimes history is written by the losers
A good post on the notion of “hard Keynesianism” raises some important questions about the recent past of the Labour Party. Hard Keynesianism is the doctrine that, if the government should run a deficit when there’s a negative output-gap and therefore unemployment, it should run a surplus when there’s a positive output-gap and therefore inflation.…
Read More Sometimes history is written by the losersis there a Corby trouser press, miniature kettle, and teabags in Room 101?
A couple of News of the World things. Just before the Met dropped their effort to bully the Grauniad with the Official Secrets Act, they ran this story about the disastrous attempt to use a supergrass in the Daniel Morgan case. Is this a coincidence? And this quote reads like a Ballardised version of Le…
Read More is there a Corby trouser press, miniature kettle, and teabags in Room 101?he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy
Did anyone else read this and this and get the horrible feeling that Maurice Glasman is over-promoted, and likely to crash in some really embarrassing way, even more than he has done already? It reminds me a bit of Tony Blair at his elevenarife worst or one of those people who are caught pretending to…
Read More he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boyis this normal?
It seems that the Islington Gazette‘s usually very funny problem page isn’t coming back from their recent re-design. Perhaps I should write and tell them I have a problem.
Read More is this normal?