“Despite living there for the better part of four years, there are many things I can?t explain about Britain: the instinct to queue, the bad plumbing, and how a culture with such bland native food can love curry so much. What I can explain are […]

there are six polls being tracked by the bbc website: Communicate, ICM, MORI, NOP, Populus and YouGov
as of lunchtime, all but Communicate have updated to TODAY as final day of polling (data gathered last three days). YouGov, which polls interweb us[…]

i passed a comical young fellow, all hat and badges and incipient bumfluff not-yet-a-moustache, standing in angel on the way to work – he looked quite stressed and lonely, so i guess the polls look bad for his party this year
yes yes the rich […]

the more i read about the litter of space dust in orbit round all these other so-called “planets”, the more i like our own homegrown giant lifeless blob — it is big and it is clever[…]

yesterday was the final day of the christian marclay show at the barbican, which is annoying cz i caught it w.an hour to spare and thus can only somewhat impotently tell you that VIDEO QUARTET is the best piece of video art i have EVER SEEN and if yo[…]

this morning the girl who by looks reminds me of rainy’s early-days ilxor friend maryann asked me where i’d been all these weeks
it seemed kinder not to tell her, so i just said “away”[…]

on sunday sistrah becky and i took dad down south and west, to the stiperstones, with its rocky outcrops, past the abandoned leadmine at snailbeach: he would lead student field trips out here fortnightly at least, while he was still teaching, though […]

It’s not that complimentary to be known as a “good politician” (cf the phrase “he got off bcz he had a good lawyer”) – but is the victor in an election simply by DEFINITION the better politician? process-heads woul[…]

yech
i have to confess it is stuff like THIS which turns me most chomskyish abt the uk press: i find it reactionary, intellectually corrupt, cynical, diversionary ect ect PLUS ALSO NEVER EVER CLEVER OR FUNNY!!?![…]

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[…]