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A few days ago, on the the previous post someone anonymously asked if I was still alive. Hopefully, this will be evidence enough. The tr...

We've handled the skiffy , so as the year draws to a close there are a couple of wrap ups to be wrapped up. There is this blogs traditi...

There's a bit of indecision about what my first "proper" science fiction novel was. I remember getting Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle...

It's been a quiet time in this corner of the internet lately. The continuous stream of posts have stopped. The rapid succession of takes...

It has taken three years, two months, and one week to get here but we can lay down another milestone. This is the 4,000th post ! Arguably I...

Thanks to all the comrades who fed back on my ummings and ahhings about whether to set up a Patreon or not. If you're reading this on a...

A quick gauge of opinion this evening. For a long time, I've been umming and ahhing about introducing a Patreon for this place. In case ...

Fancy a deep dive into the blogging wars of the pre-Corbyn left? Of course you do. In this episode of Reel Politik, Jack and Geraint pop alo...

Another blogging milestone. It's taken almost three-and-a-half years to chalk up another thousand posts, but we made it. 3,000, the bi...

As we turn the page on the year 2018, let's have a look back at the posts that commanded the most attention. And perhaps a few that n...

Cue the Pearl & Dean music. Yes, another year has gone and the beginning of the next calendar coincides with a reflection on who's h...

I'm going to break with the rest of comment land in its fashionable declaration of 2017 as awful. Sure, Donald Trump sits gurning away i...

At the Sociological Review 's social media conference at Goldsmith's yesterday, there was a bit of a discussion around how blogging ...

All That Is Solid Don't you just love Facebook? By 'love', I actually mean hate. And because of them I am forced to ...

Unless you're totally plugged into the circuits of the Westminster world and its media bubble, you may have missed the soft launch of Ti...