Sorry I have just had to put comments on friends-only because of spam. Hopefully not for long.

Can you tell this is my one time a week I allow myself to much about online? Back to work in a few moments ( Read more... )

I think the senior Tories caught up in this abuse scandal are horrible selfish people, but I don't think most of them are child abusers. I think Tom Watson MP is good to his core, and has done so many good things. But I think he is at risk of making an error ( Read more... )

The Tory I didn't want to name the other day was Lord McAlpine. It now transpires that it was sensible to be cautious. It appears the abused children were told the person abusing them was McAlpine when he was actually some other rich old man. The BBC fucked up for the second time, which is tragic ( Read more... )

I just read an article by the American historian Rick Perlstein (author of Nixonland) which develops the idea I was kind of kicking around in my head yesterday, that 'Insider knowledge' is overrated. The article is called The Long Con and it's about how political mailing lists have been used by con artists since the early sixties to mail scams out ( Read more... )

I went to bed early last night. Apparently there was a Newsnight report about the ongoing child abuse revelations which are rocking the British establishment. The BBC cautiously redacted the name of the friend of Margaret Thatcher who was closely involved. So this morning I thought I would give myself a little test of how easy it would be to find ( Read more... )

All featuring Daryl, my favourite character:

Animal that I've become

Remember the name

I stand alone

Oh, death

pointlessride asked if she could translate one of my Breaking Bad stories into Russian and here it is. It is fun to translate it back into English with Google. Like reading a story written by someone else. I like it.

Sorry I have been very poor at reading livejournal this autumn because my life is very busy. Best wishes to all lj friends on the East coast of the US. Hope there aren't too many problems from the storm coming over this evening.

My daughter is a big fan of Derren Brown and she was telling me about his new show Apocalypse. We were saying how his explanations of 'how he does it' are always fake, and the real trick is something else going on while your attention is caught up in his elaborate psychological explanation. And also how he makes use of the narratives which already ( Read more... )