Category Archives: Blather

I have more bandwidth than I ever knew. Continue reading →

The story I just posted really was the last quarrel I ever had with Anita. We’re friends now, both still married to to other people and living a thousand miles apart; and she really liked the story I wrote about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Of course, it’s poossible the reason they don’t have sex scenes is that no one wants to write about the passionate couple getting stuck in their underwear. Continue reading →

Both personal and political is so dispiriting I can hardly bear to type anything more about it. Ghastly things have happened to my oldest friend; Britain’s place as America’s most valuable ally is assured by Richard Perle’s threat to sue … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Daily Mail leads today with the news that the government has finally declared class warfare on the Middle classes: a delicious, blonde 18-year-old with three A-Level As, whose interests are world peace and nudism (oh all right, I made … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve never seen the point of wasting my nice fresh morning mind listening to people tell lies on Radio Four, so I try to keep a worthwhile book for waking up to. At the moment, It’s Natasha’s Dance. From this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This morning I dreamed that Neal Ascherson and I were hunting a childhood neighbour of mine through some woods with submachineguns; I got bored and confident left Neal to kill him. The bursts of fire moved further off into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

for the triumph of American conservatism comes from this interview with Eric Alterman There are some good liberal funders, but it’s a very complicated question. The genius of what Scaife and Coors and those people did is, they just threw … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I need a logo for my cuttings blog. It is to be called (what else?) “Sleazy bits of Trash journalism”, and after wasting a great deal of time, I have ended up with about 500 lines of Python code which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s low on the front page in some very respectable papers, of course: Continue reading →