We had an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon yesterday. It was everything you might expect an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon to be, including the dread words on the agenda “interactive game”. When you are a small c[…]

further adventures in the sooncome war of the virtual commons: a few years ago i wz subbin an arts catalogue and had dealins w.a gallery who insisted that a. the “The” in their name MUST ALWAYS BE CAPITALISED b. there must ALWAYS BE TWO S[…]

As a sort of penance for Zoe Williams’ rubbish piece (see below), the Guardian published this enlightening write-up of traditional kipper and herring production. As is often the case when I read a G2 article and think “hold on, this is in[…]

A bit of water can make a lot of difference, and the one separating Ireland (Sky comes with the basic cable package, which also supplies life-giving BBC/ITV/CH4) and England (where I understand it’s a more exotic option) can lead to strange sig[…]