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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
A new report reveals that a lack of financial control at the ministry could be affecting services.
“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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- I like that they are showing a Blue Peter from 1974 on BBC 4 tonight http://t.co/5guVlnag 2012/05/17
- Me too RT @amberelliott Still enjoying this RT @TimGattITV RT @itvnews Minister accidentally sits on senior colleague http://t.co/smHGq2k9 2012/05/17
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- RT @wmarybeard: Guardian front page has pic of Erechtheum labelled "the Parthenon". Whoops. 2012/05/17
- Saw a man walking a pony on a lead. When he caught me staring, he looked at me as if to say 'Well, where's YOUR inexplicable small horse?' 2012/05/16
Good reads

