I talked to him briefly at one event. Face to face Word events were always a mix of people introducing themselves by their blog name and real name. He told me he didn’t understand why people didn’t use their own […]

The difficultly I think some of the Massive have / had is that what was a personal passion for them was a business and a livelihood for Hepworth et al. Makes complete sense to me that they see no reason to get […]

Fraser is online editor at Classic Rock magazine.

I hope you had a wonderful time. Should you come across it at some point I’d welcome a copy

House of Cards is the most obvious example I can think of of giving up on a series. I kept thinking it would get better, that I’d see what the fuss was about, and I just never did. Gave up somewhere around the end […]

Flushed with success etc

@dai – first past the post ensures that a third party is unlikely to make it anytime ever. In ’83 Labour took 28% of the vote for 32% of the seats. The SDP / Lib vote was 26% for 3.5% of the seats

@GCU_Grey_area – Did you create the map of Word bloggers in the form of a London tube map? Be interesting to see it again now. Sadly I lost track of my copy.

If it wasn’t you …. well, hello anyway….

Having had a regular kicking for seemingly screwing artists, Spotify recently clarified that they don’t pay artists at all. They pay rights holders, which might sometimes be the artist, but more often would be the […]

Guaranteed in the way that 8 track, cassette, mini disk, DAT, SACD and DVD audio are? It’s a big assumption – that you’ll always have a working device to play it on.

Looking at it the other way round, why stay with a party that has less and less relevance to what you believe? And was honkingly unelectable? The merger came 9 years after the SDP was set up.

I met her a few times during a youthful excursion into politics. A ball of energy, always friendly (even to hecklers), totally down to earth.

Blair will likely get credit for getting Brenda to see how “The Firm’s” response to Di’s death was being so badly received by her subjects. Won’t play well with the true blues.

And as for Simon Jenkins – […]

That’s’ the narrative that Royalists are spinning to try and brush away the bits that are proving less than flattering on Brenda & Co, and knowing there’s more to come. Obviously the dialogue is fiction, and […]

You won’t be hearing much about that here. 8 pages of coverage in the Times on Saturday not even a hint. Arguably “The Crown” has the most balanced perspective.

Less a period of mourning, more a Royal PR campaign.

The BBC response is wholly down to trying to avoid another kicking from the flag shaggers in gov’t. It was over done, but given the way some of our elected officials will cack themselves if you even hint that “ […]

Yes, but is it your brain? Or a picture of someone else’s?

If I link to it for the purposes of supporting something I’ve posted here, I’m effectively reproducing it. I’m using it to enhance my post, and to the broader benefit of this site. Pictures on sites – I once read […]

“Plonk it on a CD, tell the public you’re doing it, stick it on a supermarket shelf, and it will sell.”

Mostly it won’t. Which is why supermarkets don’t carry anything other than a very select handful of o […]