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August 2, 2021August 4, 2021Misc.

Epic Iran

(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]

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February 10, 2021August 4, 2021Misc.

‘British’.

I’d not long started my career in videogames when a game designer […]

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September 11, 2019April 23, 2020Misc.

Every step you take…Part 2 – Surveillance Capitalism

“Maybe you don’t want to ask a question. Maybe you just want […]

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July 17, 2019August 4, 2021Misc.

I can’t change my mind.

I’m left-wing. I think I know what that means, but I’m never […]

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Tolkien painting of Bilbo
September 22, 2018August 4, 2021Misc.

Picasso and Tolkien and obsession

“Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything […]

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January 7, 2018August 4, 2021Misc.

Newsletter #4 – Scythians, Gods and Rogues

This is a big chunk of my latest newsletter. I’ll drop them […]

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November 19, 2017August 4, 2021Misc., Writing and publishing

Newsletter #1

Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]

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November 4, 2017August 4, 2021Misc.

Every step you take…

…aka ‘Why I’ve decided to boycott Facebook and Google.’ It began innocently […]

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November 8, 2016August 4, 2021Misc.

Last week: Art, devils, witches and death

They’ve always seemed easy to parody, the Abstract Expressionists. ‘They just flicked […]

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May 15, 2016May 18, 2016Misc.

Billie and Amy

Amy Winehouse had voice to burn, a sound burnished by a drunk […]

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April 12, 2016April 12, 2016Misc.

Frank Sobotka

David Simon’s The Wire is high on all lists of unmissable television.  […]

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Stannis Baratheon
June 9, 2015December 5, 2015Misc.

Stannis Baratheon is not the Mayor of Casterbridge

This post contains Game of Thrones spoilers, for, well, almost all of […]

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The KLF
February 10, 2015December 23, 2015Misc.

Burning a million pounds

It had been a long time since I listened to The KLF’s […]

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Hobbit Jackson
January 21, 2015December 5, 2015Misc.

Peter Jackson’s ‘Ring Cycle’ – a love letter

I’ve read a lot of complaints over Peter Jackson taking a short […]

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Ethics Gaza Sudan
September 12, 2014August 4, 2021Misc.

Proximity and the manipulation of moral feeling

News coverage of Isis and Gaza recently has reminded me of Henry […]

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Housing Philosophy World Trade Center
July 26, 2014August 4, 2021Misc.

Knowledge – a few helpful questions for the internet age

How do you know what to believe? The internet has fragmented the […]

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Derek Gervais
May 17, 2014October 22, 2018Misc.

Sentimentality

Ricky Gervais’s new series of Derek has once again divided viewers and […]

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good coffee
March 3, 2014December 5, 2015Misc.

Good coffee is easy

In the UK in the last ten to fifteen years, there has […]

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poverty inequality
January 26, 2014October 26, 2017Misc.

Shouldn’t things be better?

“How is it that we have created so much mental and emotional […]

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star wars alien amadeus
December 16, 2013December 5, 2015Misc.

Ten of my favourite movie moments

Well, it’s my blog, I can do a ‘my favourite things’ if […]

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Physical digital media kindle iphone
December 8, 2013December 5, 2015Misc.

Hard Copy

If our homes express who we are, what of the home where […]

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Running lido Saltdean
November 13, 2013September 9, 2019Misc.

Why I love running

There’s an iron nail in my left knee the first half mile […]

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September 20, 2013December 5, 2015Misc.

End Day

“Sit down son.” Jerry’s mum and dad were on the sofa opposite […]

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philosophy systems
July 26, 2013December 5, 2015Misc.

Love and brains and language games

I’m going philosophical in this post, so those of a disposition sensitive […]

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