Epic Iran
(Gold model of a chariot, 500-330BC) In the book I’m writing at […]
Category: Misc.
‘British’.
I’d not long started my career in videogames when a game designer […]
Every step you take…Part 2 – Surveillance Capitalism
“Maybe you don’t want to ask a question. Maybe you just want […]
I can’t change my mind.
I’m left-wing. I think I know what that means, but I’m never […]
Picasso and Tolkien and obsession
“Everything we love is about to die, and that is why everything […]
Newsletter #4 – Scythians, Gods and Rogues
This is a big chunk of my latest newsletter. I’ll drop them […]
Newsletter #1
Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]
Every step you take…
…aka ‘Why I’ve decided to boycott Facebook and Google.’ It began innocently […]
Last week: Art, devils, witches and death
They’ve always seemed easy to parody, the Abstract Expressionists. ‘They just flicked […]
Billie and Amy
Amy Winehouse had voice to burn, a sound burnished by a drunk […]
Frank Sobotka
David Simon’s The Wire is high on all lists of unmissable television. […]
Stannis Baratheon is not the Mayor of Casterbridge
This post contains Game of Thrones spoilers, for, well, almost all of […]
Burning a million pounds
It had been a long time since I listened to The KLF’s […]
Peter Jackson’s ‘Ring Cycle’ – a love letter
I’ve read a lot of complaints over Peter Jackson taking a short […]
Proximity and the manipulation of moral feeling
News coverage of Isis and Gaza recently has reminded me of Henry […]
Knowledge – a few helpful questions for the internet age
How do you know what to believe? The internet has fragmented the […]
Sentimentality
Ricky Gervais’s new series of Derek has once again divided viewers and […]
Good coffee is easy
In the UK in the last ten to fifteen years, there has […]
Shouldn’t things be better?
“How is it that we have created so much mental and emotional […]
Ten of my favourite movie moments
Well, it’s my blog, I can do a ‘my favourite things’ if […]
Hard Copy
If our homes express who we are, what of the home where […]
Why I love running
There’s an iron nail in my left knee the first half mile […]
End Day
“Sit down son.” Jerry’s mum and dad were on the sofa opposite […]
Love and brains and language games
I’m going philosophical in this post, so those of a disposition sensitive […]