Radical Disgust
An easy blog today. Something very strange and noteworthy would have to happen later in the day for me to want to blog anything else, so I’m going early, leaving me free to work...
Author: Ian Marchant
If it was just about Celebs…
… I really wouldn’t know what to do. After all, today Cameron was out with Gazza Bazza, who wrote one of my favourite songs of the last I don’t know how long… Whilst Eddie...
Eyjafjallajokull
I loved the televised debate, me, but then I’m a political anorak, so I would. Like everyone, I thought Cleggy was the winner, though I thought My Little David did best on body language,...
Middle England – an entirely unscientific poll
Today I drove from Presteigne to Perry Barr in North West Birmingham, a drive I make at least once a week. It’s a very beautiful drive, until you reach the M5 just outside Droitwich,...
Communitarianism
Just a few links tonight…. Things run by volunteers… http://www.talyllyn.co.uk/ http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/home By local communities… http://www.gigha.org.uk/ http://www.rutlandtelecom.co.uk/ By Trusts… http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/index.shtml By various kinds of co-operative… http://www.co-operative.coop/ http://www.johnlewis.com/
Why Holywood Matters
So, I spent last autumn living in Holywood in Northern Ireland. With a lady. Now she is living with me, here in Sunny Presteigne. This morning, we awoke to the horrifying news that the...
Kemptown Lady
A short blog this evening, as I’m nuts deep in the new book. It’s not often that I wished I still lived In Brighton… in fact, it’s only at Electiontide. Back in the eighties,...
Gordon! Gordon! Gordon! Out! Out! Out!
There was a biggish demo in London today, against public spending cuts and redundancies in the public sector. On my wall, I have an 18th Century print of Canute attempting to hold back the...
Adonis by name…
I thought it was the Real Tories who were the toffs, but actually it’s the New Party who trot out their unelected peers for the benefit of the press. We’ve already seen a lot...
Never did me any harm…
Today the Tories, aided by Michael Caine, unveiled their plans for a version of National Service, what you might call National Service Lite. It won’t be compulsory, but will combine a few weeks of...
Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism
So, today it’s all been about constitutional and electoral reform. The New Party promise to deliver the things they promised to deliver 13 years ago with a majority of 160. The flagship idea is...
Our Cause is Your Cause
So said Gordon Brown, launching the New Party’s election campaign today. Surely he meant to say, Your Cause is Our Cause; which is to say, we, as elected politicians will attempt to find out...
Newhaven Marine
The fabulous Jolyon Jenkins, the producer at Radio Four who is doing the show about ghost trains, sent me this excerpt from Hansard today… 3 Feb 2009 : Column 1135W Newhaven Marine Railway Station...
Ghost trains?
I was wondering if any readers had any info on ghost trains? By which I mean ‘Parly trains’; those services which companies are forced to run because it’s cheaper to run them than to...
Jolly exciting developments
Probably. I haven’t blogged properly for a while, because there doesn’t seem much point, since old Perry Venus is working on a revamp of my site. It’s to become a ‘self-hosted’ blog, and although...
I love my students
Loves ’em, I do. Please take a moment to have a look at some of their blogs, which are listed on the right hand side of my blog under BCU Life Writing. They are...
