John Peel and William Burroughs were my two big surprises. I loved them both dearly - if only as voices in print or radio. But boy did seeing those headlines hit me. Lynch I've yet to process. He's b… (View Post)

You'll never make it unless you organise it as Darlington over winter, then Bodmin over summer. And yet somehow also manage to not upgrade the train connection to either. At great expense. (View Post)

Going by my childhood I was supposed to be living on a space-station with glamorous space-vixens and eating delicious space-food. I'm not that surprised by either future failing to pan out. Though I … (View Post)

Ah! Ta! Maybe I'm young (please! please let it be so!) but it sounds like a new term for what's been happening for years (decades? millennia?). Though fits in a pithy hashtag better I guess. (View Post)

We can't just go about sacking people just for being useless. Then they might notice that the people doing the sacking were also useless. And there aren't enough quango seats to go round. (View Post)