If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Christmas means many things to many people. Presents. Trees. Decorations… Errr… Goodwill to all men…
And thinly veiled bribery if you’re a journalist. Or at least attempts at bribery, which never work. The tally, so far, this year:
Half a dozen […]

So, the last breakfast show featurette. No more getting up, showered and dressed in time to be sitting by the ISDN on a Thursday morning, sipping tea and waiting for it to chirp. No more chats with Robin at the other end of the line, waiting for Sandy and Phil (or Simon and Petrie as […]

Electronic Christmas cards. A marvellous invention…

The party season is finally drawing to a close. As far as London is concerned, anyway. A choice of four this evening, so opted for Mark’s birthday and spurned the freebie alternatives.
We ended up at Porters, again, which is rapidly becoming the (overpriced) regular. It’s local if nothing else. And less dingy than the John […]

Like something in a scary film of a future gone badly wrong, this advert appeared in today’s edition of Metro:
ARE YOU PREPARED?
Our Promask can protect you, your family, friends and colleagues in the event of a gas attack. State of the art, Nato certified, and the gas mask of choice for the military, police, fire […]

South Africa is cutting its budget for drugs to treat its AIDS patients. Why? It wants to buy new submarines because it is convinced America is going to attack it.
Who are the terrorists in the War on Terror?

When the Irish ratified the Nice Treaty last month, by a narrow majority, and simultaneously approved the application of ten countries to join the Union it was the end of a long battle over what the net effect would be on its existing members.
Naturally, some in Ireland were worried that the generous subsidies it has […]

On my phone, in the office, this morning:
Hi. This is Nik. I’m either on the phone or away from my desk at the moment, so please leave your name and number after the tone and, if you want me to call you back, a brief message, too.
:: BEEP ::
Hi. This is a message for Chris […]

I’m feeling a little delicate this morning. I’m putting it down to one of two things. It was either the unidentified red shots at the Handspring party at Belgo last night (they tasted good, they were served by a man in a monk’s cassock, so why should I think to ask), or it was the […]

How depressing. 20% less trains on the network within a year. Potentially. As if they weren’t already cattle-trucks. Seems not everyone’s convinced it will happen, though. The Strategic Rail Authority, which is having serious trouble keeping the trains on track on budget made what has to be the most stupid comment of all: ‘what we […]