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I’d like to get in the habit of doing the blog-all-dog-eared-pages thing, but I really really hate dog-earing pages. I’m not absurdly fussy about the state of my books – they are working objects after all – but I don’t like folding the corners of the pages. So I thought I’d note this [...]

I wrote a first-draft version of what follows in a comment on a friend’s blog, and I think that in the process of writing it I got as close to a reasoned articulation of my problems with the organised (and even the disorganised) faiths of the world as I’ve ever managed. So I’m revising [...]

Someone phone Grant Morrison, and tell him he’s won?

So, new government.
As a staunch non-Tory, am I wailing and rending my garments?
Well, no. Odds are tomorrow will be pretty much like yesterday, and will remain so. I’m not wild about the £6bn in cuts, but whoever won would have had to do similar, so I’m not going to instantly decry them. [...]

I’ve been keeping my gob shut on the politics front for the last few weeks, because I haven’t wanted to get into it with some of my friends, and because I haven’t decided how I’m going to vote yet. I don’t want to get into economics, or ideology, because I’m not 100% up to [...]

So, the Digital Economy Bill passed. What now?
Well, first of all, you might consider writing to your MP again. Here’s what I’m sending. You’d need to amend it a bit to reflect your specific circumstances, but it might be worth doing.
Dear Sadiq Khan,
I wrote to you a few weeks ago, regarding the [...]

It is wrong that it would make me more likely to vote Labour if they actually used this as a campaign advert. But it probably would.

Edit: From the Grauniad’s April Fools Day joke here.

Write to your MP. Do it now.
What about? Well, you may have heard me and others carping on about the Digital Economy Bill. I’m going to set aside how I feel about it (although I’ll come back to that another time) for a moment, and just accept that some sort of Bill [...]

Testament went well on Sunday. The players-only website for it, less so – I underestimated the complexity of the task I’d set myself, and have been hacking some fairly nasty javascript in spare moments all week to make it work. And even once I’ve got that done, that’s essentially just the player-relevant side [...]