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Justified
This is a late heads up to look out for Justified on Five USA. Sorry – we’re three episodes in – but you can still start watching! The next showing of episode 3 is on Saturday at 9pm on Five USA, and you really should be watching. The good news is that you can still…
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Has The Mail on Sunday Lost England The World Cup?
It’s the question that isn’t really be asked – at least in the media. But did the Mail on Sunday’s scoop last weekend fatally damage England’s chances of hosting the World Cup in 2018? Lord Triesman’s words were certainly ill-advised, and, without any proof, completely unfounded. He was foolish to confide such beliefs with anyone…
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The Spawn of Satan
Sorry. I’m going to return to an evil that I’ve talked about before. What bedevilment do I mean? Why – the standard “ear buds” that come with Apple’s products. Look – I know I can sometimes moan about Apple. They have their closed systems, their sometimes bloated software (iTunes – I’m looking at you), and…
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Absolute 80s Goes National on D1
Good news if you’re a fan on 80s music – Absolute 80s, which only launched in London at the end of 2009 – is going national from 10am this morning on digital radio. If you can hear stations on the D1 multiplex (i.e. Absolute Radio, Talksport, Classic FM etc), then you should be able to…
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RAJAR Q1 2010
In an experimental change, RAJAR brought forward the release time of this quarter’s RAJAR to midnight tonight. But I’ve been out, so I’m an hour or so later than Matt’s sterling summary of RAJAR which is pretty comprehensive. There are two big stories that are going to get all the coverage in the papers later…
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Radio Times 8 May 2010
We’ve not quite got a new government (at time of writing), and it’s the weekend. So what do you watch on TV? As ever, I do my best to help. Best viewed large.
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Election Night Live
Well not really live. But expect this particular entry to be updated as the night goes on. It’ll be in reverse order. 11:40 “Haven’t you got a city to run? Well go away and do it. Goodbye!” Paxman to Boris. 11:36 I’ve just realised that I missed the news that my own local MP who…
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Election Coverage Tonight
Channel 4’s obviously not voting Green. They were advertising their alternative election special this evening with a helicopter dangling this ad at lunchtime over Soho. That follows a very expensively produced booklet that fell out of one of my newspapers at the weekend. The thing is, even though I really like the people involved (Charlie…
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Polling Day
Up early to vote. It’s easier in the morning as there’s less queuing.
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Photos with an Olympus Trip
I really don’t use the rather lovely Olympus Trip I bought a few years ago on eBay nearly as much as I should. Here are a few shots I took over a rather dramatic weekend. The full set is here.
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Enron
If you’re into plays based around colossal financial scandal, then now is a great time to be in the West End. Last autumn I saw The Power of Yes at the National, but the play that everyone was talking about was Enron. And this evening I finally got around to seeing the play that’s won…
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Magnificant Maps
Have I mentioned before how much I love maps? Oh yes, I have. The latest exhibition at the British Library is Magnificent Maps which opened on Friday. It shows off an enormous range of maps, from a Roman era floorplan engraved on a rock through a reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (recently commissioned by the…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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