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Hugh Laurie “Snubbed”
Note: I wrote this a couple of days ago, but managed to forget to hit the publish button. If you look around on Google News today, you’ll see a few stories about Hugh Laurie: Laurie ‘snubbed’ after US success BBC News, UK – 1 hour ago Actor Hugh Laurie has said Britain has turned its…
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Wired – Good News/Bad News
Condé Nast is looking to launch a UK edition of Wired magazine according to Media Week (free registration required). Wired, of course, did once before launch a UK edition that sadly closed a couple of years later. But that pre-dates Condé Nast’s ownership and now they’re again readying a UK version. Great! But then I…
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ITV1 In Half-Decent Drama Shock
That title’s probably a little unfair, as there are occasionally – very occasionally – some decent dramas on ITV1, but they can be a little scarce and take some hunting down. It’s also possible that Rock Rivals is the best thing since sliced-bread, but given that it comes from the production company who I like…
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Who Should Be Taken Off Air
The comments are a fun read…
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Making Your Stuff iPhone Compatable
In the past I’ve had a bit of a go at websites rushing to produce iPhone friendly versions of themselves. This might be in some part because I’m not an Apple evangelist like so many tech people (I have an iPod, but that’s it, and I think iTunes is a truly awful piece of bloatware).…
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These Boots Are Made For Walking
Look – we all know the fashion business is nonsense. But if there’s one recent trend that’s really annoyed me, for no good reason, it’s the sudden desire for Ugg boots. These Australian made pieces of footwear are, in themselves, perfectly fine (the fact that “Ugg” has been adopted as a trade name, when in…
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Tricks of the Mind
I tend to avoid cash-in books to accompany popular TV series; you won’t catch me buying the complete Little Britain Scripts or whatever (OK, so Little Britain is well past its sell-by date). But I’ve always been intrigued by Derren Brown. It’s true that his last special – The System – I found to be…
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Flat Earth News
Nick Davies has written a fascinating book that details exactly how we get our news – and he’s not a happy man. I like to think that I know a little about what goes on in the media and how truths are distorted and the way that newspapers and news broadcasts are put together. In…
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Bagless Mail
So the Daily Mail has suddenly become devoted to going bagless – that is, seeing the end of the free plastic bag. Earlier this week it launched a massive campaign, and by a complete fluke, and in no way pre-planned, the next day Marks & Spencer announced that it’d no longer be supplying free plastic…
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Ed Reardon on New Grub Street
Thanks to Chris for noting that Open Book on Radio 4 recently covered nineteenth century novelist George Gissing and his novel New Grub Street. The main character is one Edwin Reardon, and there’s also a Jasper Milvain. Familiar names to fans of Ed Reardon’s Week like myself. Listen to the extract here: powered by ODEO…
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Earth Tremor
Utterly bizarre. I was just sitting here in my flat at 12.55am, when the sofa started shaking. I live on a top floor flat, and the light hanging above me was moving while the rather precarious stack of CDs against one wall started to move. It all went on for about ten seconds. Turning on…
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Taxi To The Dark Side
The winner of this year’s Oscar for Documentary Feature was Taxi To The Dark Side. This film was shown on BBC2 as part of the Storyville strand. Having just won an Oscar, the BBC are obviously rushing to repeat the film for those of us (including me) who missed it. So when and where is…
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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…
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