I wrote a first-draft version of what follows in a comment on a friend’s blog, and I think that in the process of writing it I got as close to a reasoned articulation of my problems with the organised (and even the disorganised) faiths of the world as I’ve ever managed. So I’m revising it, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'It’s A Round World, Innit?'
Cameron/Clegg
May 12th, 2010 No Comments
So, new government. As a staunch non-Tory, am I wailing and rending my garments? Well, no. Odds are tomorrow will be pretty much like yesterday, and will remain so. I’m not wild about the £6bn in cuts, but whoever won would have had to do similar, so I’m not going to instantly decry them. I [...]
Tags: politics
On the General Election
May 5th, 2010 No Comments
I’ve been keeping my gob shut on the politics front for the last few weeks, because I haven’t wanted to get into it with some of my friends, and because I haven’t decided how I’m going to vote yet. I don’t want to get into economics, or ideology, because I’m not 100% up to date [...]
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Post DEB Post
April 8th, 2010 No Comments
So, the Digital Economy Bill passed. What now? Well, first of all, you might consider writing to your MP again. Here’s what I’m sending. You’d need to amend it a bit to reflect your specific circumstances, but it might be worth doing. Dear Sadiq Khan, I wrote to you a few weeks ago, regarding the [...]
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On Privilege and Behaviour
January 11th, 2010 No Comments
I belong to what is pretty much the privileged group people on the planet: I am a middle class white cisgendered neurotypical heterosexual male from a developed nation who does not suffer from a mental illness or have a serious physical disability. This tends to make me very careful when I talk about equality-related topics, [...]
Tags: feminism
Taking The Plinth
July 21st, 2009 No Comments
So, I was on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of One and Other last night. You all know this, because I’ve done nothing but bang on about it for the last week or so. What you may not know is that before people go up on the plinth, they are photographed and [...]
St George’s Day
April 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Several people have wished me, either specifically, or as part of general bit of well wishing to all their digital friends, a Happy St George’s Day today. Because there’s been a trend in recent years to try and celebrate it, a bit like St Patrick’s Day, presumably because the big breweries will jump at any [...]
Tags: patriotism · stgeorge
Truth And Power
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
Del asks what I think about the current expansions of police powers to curb photography/journalism. And because Del is clever, she asked that I try and be balanced about it. As is probably eyeball-searingly obvious, I am against it with the kind of incandescent rage I normally reserve for bigots, morons and people who attempt [...]
Tags: civil liberties · photography · police
A Vindication Of Something Or Other
February 24th, 2009 No Comments
Topic #3 from Hester: Women. This one gave me some trouble, for a number of reasons, but if I keep re-writing this, I’m going to go mad. I’ll just have to ask you to be kind to my flaws, here. I toyed with idea of writing some ghastly piece of misogynistic trash, and calling it [...]
Tags: equality · relationships · women
