Sometimes a view is just a view

Every so often I reboot this blog, and every so often someone comes along to give me a reason why I should constrain my blogging. I already do. I work for an organisation which has Political views in many areas, and which is led by democratically elected people. Those...
Late to the party

Late to the party

That there are some men in social media who get their jollies from threatening strong, intelligent women online is not exactly surprising. Sick puppies abound. That the response of some feminists is to decide on a day in the near future to not engage in Twitter is...

Welcome to 2013. I’m blogging again.

Hello. I’ve been away for a long time. I’ve been writing a book and it’s almost done, so I thought I’d try to get back into the spirit of things, now my dalliance with blogging among more notable luminaries on Iain Dale’s site has ended....

Returned

For some reason closely associated with the boring nature of the first half of any government, a novel I’m trying to write. SaveEd.org and the release of Battlefield 3 (a violent computer game) I have not been blogging. Happily, David Cameron has finally done...
Changes to the website

Changes to the website

The site is due for its regular screwup, just in time to keep the Alexa figures down, reduce my advertising prospects and make SEO a bit more difficult. The site will be switched to have three categories: Politics, Technology and Culture. The politics section will be...

The mysterious case of too many fucking fadas

Sometimes, we get things wrong.  Sometimes, however, it’s not our fault.  As a result of the historical intransigence of the Irish people and their insistence on the creation of a 26 county partitionist statelet, the education system in the still loyally British...