“Thank you, America!”
“Thank You America” is one of my favourite Cabaret Voltaire tunes, so I nicked the title for this post. Regular readers may have noted that I’ve spent quite a bit of the last few months live blogging US politics and…
Friday Reading Eats Big Dinners S10E11
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is also available as an email newsletter and eats big dinners. Sign up here. This…
Friday Reading S10S10
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is also available as an email newsletter. Sign up here. Looking at the whole Jeffrey…
m-orchestra at Halloween
You might think that Halloween would be the perfect time to be a musician making spooky haunted electronic music. And you would be right. If you’ve never seen or heard my Fortean electronica, then over the next couple of weeks…
Aberfan
It is the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, a story that breaks my heart whenever I think of it. This interactive about it by the team at Wales Online from a few years ago is, to my mind, one of…
Friday Reading S10E09
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … interesting things I found to read on the web about journalism, media, politics and all the other weird cult-thinks and nonsense I am into. Subscribe to it here. I often mention the grief…
Friday Reading S10E08
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … things what I reckon you’ll like. Subscribe to it here. From the media ethics department, I found this very interesting: It also affects how our legal system tackles law-breakers on the roads. Those…
Fanmail
I’ve had quite a lot of fanmail in the last few days at work. I’ve been called a “simpleton”, an absolute shill for the Leftist mob, a moronic wanker, a fucking imbecile and someone signed off simply “you are an…
Friday Reading S10E07
It’s back. My weekly newsletter of … shiny baubles from the intertubes. Subscribe to it here. In 1954, the Supreme Court decided that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional—but it was thousands of children who actually desegregated America’s classrooms. The…