I'm not dead. Still here, still reading, and quietly fuming away about the government. I'm also working on a new blogging project for putting my rants - ahem, my insightful social commentary - into, so I'm trying to work more on the quality of my writing, developing ideas instead of spilling it all out like the people who post comments on news ( Read more... )

Theresa May? Theresa Fucking May? Seriously, I've known for six hours and still can't get my head round it. For those who are out of the loop (or living in other countries), David Cameron has appointed an openly homophobic and generally regressive female politician as Minister for Women and Equality. Usually one of the prerequisites for this kind ( Read more... )

It's all over. I think I now have a much better idea of how it felt to be a person with remotely sane politics in America in November 2000. It's less fun watching this kind of thing unfold on your own patch. I'm also starting to better understand the logic of my flatmate's strange Tory brother's belief that the Queen is an essential figure in ( Read more... )

I voted ( Read more... )

Last week I discovered that the academics can always find new ways of pushing their luck and circumventing administrative procedures. I'm increasingly convinced that one of them is doing it deliberately to see how much he can get away with. It doesn't bother me that they don't understand the financial stuff, but the complete insistence from ( Read more... )

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This has been a particularly crap day. Just a catalogue of things going wrong ( Read more... )

Today was a rite of passage. Today I became a cycle commuter. It was a bit scary, and there were a couple of hills where I thought I was going to chuck up my healthy breakfast of fruit and porridge all over the cobbles, but I got where I needed to go without injury or any of my equipment being stolen. It was four-and-a-bit miles on the way out, ( Read more... )

This evening, in an attempt to get closer to making a decision on who to vote for in the General Election, or at least to wind up some people I don't agree with, I wandered along to a hustings organised by some local feminist groups to see what the craic was. It turned out to be a good evening's entertainment, and even a little bit informative. My ( Read more... )

Somebody said they wanted to see a picture of my bike, so here it is. It still needs a name.


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