Recently in Socio-political Category

Oh dear. Just saw this on Dan Harmon's blog. Tom has been covering the writer's strike with enthusiasm and aplomb and I don't have that much to say about it since it is fundamantally an American issue and hence not really much of my business, except that some of my favourite shows (The Daily Show and The Colbert Report most fundamentally- gosh I miss them!) are now MIA and that the script for th ...

Yes, it's true, that was me you saw in the Goo-ardian this weekend (er, if the photo* and the name didn't tip you off), you may now stop texting me (although I must say I'm impressed by how many of you read your weekend Guardian, well done). If you missed it, I'm reposting the entire article below (which was oddly laid-out so you may experience temporary confusion as to what section you're in- it ...

"Everywhere I look there's bloody Bob Geldof. All the performers taking part are mega-rich, but they're asking us for money? Bleh." "Gah! You're like the tenth person I've had to explain this to. I can't blame you, because the papers are encouraging the impression that this is just another Live Aid. Live8 is not about raising money to give to Africa. Nowhere on the Make Poverty History site is th ...

[this began as a comment on another blog, but it got so long I thought I'd just stick it here. My thoughts on this topic aren't (and could hardly be) original, and are covered far more eloquently and intelligently in other, more eloquent, more intelligent blogs] So, according to the Sunday Times yesterday, the Tories intend to turn abortion into a 'keystone issue' for this year's election. My fir ...

I went to Hyde Park on Saturday, absolutely gorgeous day, I was meeting some friends for a picanic. I walked over from Green Park, and I quickly noticed that all the roads around the park were closed off, police were everywhere. I had a marvellous time, walking down the centre lane of the five-lane blacktop running alongside Hyde Park. Eventually I ran into the reason the roads were blocked off, w ...