There shall be a Scottish Parliament
I went to the Scottish Parliament recently – a friend works there and offered to give me a tour. As a resident of England, I didn’t feel particularly strongly about the building, or the process of devo[…]

Music as Wallpaper
I was watching Changing Rooms last night and heard ‘Winter Wooksie’ by Belle and Sebastian as background to Lawrence cutting out flowers. It felt right.
Given that this was coming to us from Chorleywood, Britain’s[…]

I went to a conference last month on football – not a policy conference with wonks and stuff, y’understand, but a proper academic conference.
There were some good papers given, so for the benefit of TMFD readers; a synopsis of where we&#8[…]

Fine and Dandy
The Today programme, yesterday. John Humphries intriduces a story about the new, glossy, relaunched Dandy.
He begins by fulminating that it’s on glossy paper, has new stories, and Desperate Dan has got rid of his gun. Isn’t[…]

Real People wanted
Upcoming opportunities to get on telly in misguided belief that fame and fortune awaits? Or at least, that’s the sell, it seems to me. Do people beleive it? Do people not just go for a laugh or for a good day out (especially […]

The Bestest Player in the Whole Wide World Ever!
FIFA’s annual popularity contest nears conclusion. The list is here, and FIFA’s news story on the list is worth a post of itself. The event will be imbued with a ‘Uuique tone’. […]

Forwards, ever forwards?
Loyalty of football fans not beyond breaking point, he said, expectantly wanting the backlash to start.
There’s one school of though that view that on one side there are ‘others’ and on the other there are &[…]

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Pie claims first political victim[…]

Weltmeister 2006
The organising committee of the next World Cup have put a selection of posters to a vote in Germany to decide the official poster. Sadly, there’s little to be done about the logo, but my favourite was this one:

but the winner[…]