The sudden death of Michael Jackson yesterday raises questions for people who have bought tickets for planned concerts this summer at the O2 arena. I’ve had a few emails from people asking what they should do. Here’s my perspective: First, don’...
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June 26th 2009One non-snobby reason I like Waitrose is the very real commitment to local produce. And one of the reasons to rejoice about this policy is their selec[...] Read the rest »
June 24th 2009(It seems like I’ve been blogging mostly politics these past few weeks. Here’s a bit of whimsy… the first in a possibly new series o[...] Read the rest »
June 23rd 2009Every now and again I get asked to comment on eBay and ecommerce. A request a few weeks ago, resulted in a quote in The Independent. But as ever, I s[...] Read the rest »
June 22nd 2009Spotted in Hove at the weekend: [...] Read the rest »
June 19th 2009I’ve been doing my bit for transparency and democracy in the last day or so, using the Guardian’s crowdsourcing tool to scour the thousands o[...] Read the rest »
June 16th 2009In the days before blogging, we bloggers had to fulfil our blogging urges somehow. That’s why in spring 1994, with GCSEs looming that summer, I was [...] Read the rest »
June 14th 2009I didn’t receive my polling card for last week’s European Elections (we don’t have a county council in Brighton). This is obviously not the end [...] Read the rest »
June 3rd 2009Several people have said to me: “I’m voting Green. I can’t trust any of the main three parties’’ If you’re thinking of voting Green becaus[...] Read the rest »
May 29th 2009The Green Party are campaigning hard as the transparent, sleaze-free, squeaky-clean, anti-expenses party. Their anti-fat cat leaflet caught my eye (se[...] Read the rest »
May 19th 2009News from the House of Commons. The cross-party performance of “Songs from The Sound of Music” has not been cancelled despite the national outcry [...] Read the rest »
May 15th 2009The Great Escape is an annual music festival held in Brighton. It’s not really like a festival (in the sense of Glastonbury) because it’s not comm[...] Read the rest »
May 13th 2009This is a fairly disorganised selection of stuff I’ve been reading over the past few weeks. Imagine this: people make social judgements about t[...] Read the rest »
