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Guardian stuff (or one of those posts)

On 13/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

Things have been very busy at TP recently, but in between that I’ve been contributing the occasional comment piece to the Guardian’s Comment is Free section online. Look:

 

I’m just telling you this in case you’re someone other than my mother or a friend to whom I’ve gone [...]

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‘Blood donation homophobia slyly repackaged’

On 10/06/2011 · Leave a Comment

This is an article I wrote recently as part of a debate for the Gay Times

‘Gay men can’t give blood’ has always seemed to me to be a problematic phrase. ‘Can’t’, as in are not physically able to? Of course not. ‘Can’t’, as in are arbitrarily prevented by a discriminatory and unjustified [...]

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I was on television, damn it

On 26/05/2011 · Leave a Comment

I was on television for the first time (intentionally, that is) on Monday. I did the paper review on BBC News 24 at 10.45 and 11.15. I thought I’d be safe from anyone I know actually seeing it, but I forgot that lots of my friends are journalists who do night shifts, so I got [...]

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The (bad) poetry of Christopher Hitchens

On 14/05/2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m not a Christopher Hitchens devotee. That role is very ably filled by my erstwhile colleague George Eaton of the New Statesman, and even if I wanted to, I couldn’t possibly compete with his level of knowledge or fervour.

However, I do love Vanity Fair, so of course I’ve been reading Hitchens’ columns [...]

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Occupation: ‘I am a sculptor of stone lions’

On 09/04/2011 · Leave a Comment

Forget the 400,000 idiots visionaries who recorded their religion as ‘Jedi’ in the 2001 census. I’ve just come across a letter to the Times from last week where a former ‘census enumerator’ recalls the most bizarre answer he ever saw.

Apparently, someone recorded their occupation as ‘a sculptor of stone lions’. Not so improbable, you [...]

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Stella Creasy’s major misstep

On 01/03/2011 · 1 Comment

The debate about quite what the big society should comprise continues, but Labour MP Stella Creasy has injected a bit of controversy into what was rapidly becoming a pretty turgid debate.

In a debate in Parliament yesterday afternoon on this very subject, she expressed her concern that the idea was so vague that the “big [...]

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I’m a proper journalist at last

On 01/03/2011 · 1 Comment

I know it’s only a card, but I do feel like I’ve achieved something. Obviously, I’d rather have a hat, but this will do for now. Mainly, though, it means I can’t be thrown out of things any more for not having proper accreditation.

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The week that was: launching a website

On 27/02/2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been more than a little slack with blogging over the past few days/weeks/months. This week just gone, in particular, has been absolutely crazy-busy for me – I helped oversee the launch of the new Total Politics website, the planning and design of which has been consuming most of my time [...]

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The Ministry of Justice’s misunderstanding

On 06/07/2010 · Leave a Comment

A new report reveals that a lack of financial control at the ministry could be affecting services.

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Alistair Cooke and Joe Louis

On 06/07/2010 · Leave a Comment

“Well, there he is, the Brown Bomber no more… All things considered, a credit to his race — so long as you add the necessary after thought: the human race, that is.”

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