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Homes and Gardens
The Iranian government is baiting the Israelies again. First it was a competition for cartoons about the holocaust, now they’re running a conference to discuss whether the holocaust actually happened at all. They are trying to demonstrate that the West … Continue reading
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He who lives by the sword…
Because I work in broadcasting I frequently find myself walking behind people who are oblivious to everything around them but their deadline. They often go through swing doors without a backward glance and so I sometimes kick the closing door hard … Continue reading
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Sonic Voyage
Stan’s Cafe commissioned Brian Duffy, astronaut, photographer, writer and sound masher, to work with them on a show thing for the big Creative Partnerships culture bonanza in Manchester. He’s made a lovely mix with the stuff he used, you can … Continue reading
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Inspect The Morse
Tip o’ the hat to James Yarker for drawing my attention to the hilarious Morse Code competition on Friday’s Today Programme. Have a Listen. I decoded the message with a program called MultiMode because I don’t speak morse. It says … Continue reading
BBC NEWS | England | Nottinghamshire | Protesters unfurl anti-M1 banners
Some anti-road people hung banners from bridges on the M1 today saying www.nowideningm1.org.uk. When I saw a picture of one it looked to me like it said Now Widen M1. Don’t they know you can put capitals in a URL? … Continue reading
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Atheist Fundamentalist
This damming review, by Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books, of Richard Dawkins’ new book The God Delusion is so extremely well-written, so painfully excoriating, that it deserves to be read by every literate English speaker on the … Continue reading
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Bad taste, good radio?
I was mixing a programme for a slot called Analysis on World Service radio last week. The programme was written by a BBC Correspondent called Kim Ghattas who works in the Middle East and it was about the changing security situation in … Continue reading
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The First Post
I’ve been getting more and more puzzled about The First Post, an online magazine I came across a few months ago. The design of the site is excellent, the articles are pithy, well written and invariably interesting and many of … Continue reading
Holocaust Cartoons
I had never been particularly interested in seeing the cartoons about the holocaust that Iran commissioned as a reaction to the Danish Muslim cartoons brouhaha. However, now that a Danish newspaper has published them and there’s no doubt going to … Continue reading
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Who is Ashley Highfield?
Here I go again, off-topic and annoying the punters, but I really have to link to this article by Tom Coates. He used to work for the BBC, now he works for Yahoo. He’s writing about Ashley Highfield who has … Continue reading
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