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2024

November

In the mean time between failures

July

For Nigel, whenever I might find him

February

A struggle for life Notes on post-secular – 2

2023

November

Before I forget Homily 1 – Education Heroes and villeins Swimming to America

September

Notes on post-secular – 1

August

Meditation as civil resistance

June

Without reservations Tour notes

April

A revolution in France

January

Your right to bare arms

2022

November

Y q?

September

The return of the king

August

Clarity, rigour and Rory Stewart The World’s End Book Club Remembering Bel Macdonald

July

Barts hearts and faces Summer on wheels

April

All that jazz: The librarian’s song Sandals on their way home A short history of the Australian Flat White Cycling glove, slightly foxed

March

Untoward occurrence at embassy poetry reading To Go to Lvov The founding of Iverson College The pot-boy’s story

February

Prisoners of our own device How green is my valley

January

The ghost in the shell

2021

November

Policing protests in Glasgow

October

Why don’t we do it in the road? The democracy of narcissism

September

The rest is silence

July

Bergh Apton revisited

June

What makes a language flourish? A duty of care

May

Crispbread economics Learning vector programming The Underground The Post Office scandal A plea for simplicity BoJo the clown Days are of two kinds Trollope What we saw in Roswell The orkestra bows out

April

Imagine Hampstead village and South End Green with no through traffic What makes this so dangerous Rural rides Crank it up Rediscovering our animal nature The high streets of Hampstead The beneficiaries of the status quo are in no rush to change Among the many things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Animal Farm: Special illustrated edition

2016

May

Nuclear-armed rogue states

2014

May

The Sixth Extinction

2013

August

Food of love

May

War on Terror

2012

September

Terror is a tactic

August

Global worming

2011

November

Art of the possible

October

Liveable London Two kinds of London cycling campaign

September

Poetry and film

June

What we learned in Kyoto

May

Landing Heading East

2010

March

Big Brother fears over new medical database for all

2009

November

Sooo mid-twentieth-century In place of parliament Mourning parliamentary democracy

September

The real threat to the life of the nation

August

The dignity of the king

July

Hydrogen peroxide

June

John is John

April

Waking up to the importance of sleep Very nicely put. I think I may steal bits of this … A letter to my MP Remembering Tom Guthrie Ian Tomlinson’s last moments alive

March

Conor Gearty and the “convention of cant” Balkanised music I enjoyed this article very much, thankyou Stephen… Why privacy matters Clause 152 defeated? A light shines in Buckinghamshire Freedom in peril

February

Don’t get it yet? Republic of two Contemptible to be rich?

January

Hit me! Full employment Geek chic Slouching towards Westminster Why I am supporting the Convention Get your ticket His resilient career War on Terror Back to work

2008

July

June diary

June

May diary

May

April diary

April

Weird Wild Web

March

February diary

February

January diary

2007

December

December diary

November

November diary

October

October notes Gloria gets carsick on Mondays In darkness or at night Who is my neighbour? IT IDiocy Irate about Iraq, Iran Home pleasures

September

The look of libel Surfing into New York Relaxin’ at Minnowbrook A suitable case for an Asbo? Concentrating wealth and power Good Deed That was no movie, that was one of my colleagues… Web web web Bramley APLers Kome back to Karavados

August

Walking to work The water babies Cats and dogs A climate change for protest Beyond my toenails Losing people, finding people Mr Ahmad’s extradition More dancing The Hollywood effect Give war a chance

July

Pynchon’s paternity Orkestra del Sol at Glastonbury Pynchon and paranoia Cultural differences Feeling employed A piece of the rope A sudden bonfire On neighbours Why it matters Vanished adults Technology, society Tidal power in Westminster

June

Sports and high-culture news Against the fragile human land Rumbled by Doctor A Falling towards England Ancient beach towns The wind from nowhere The fanatacism, the reliance The wrong questions Broken and reassembled every day Mechanical men Enough bitterness Desire and cocktails Italian notes La vita Milanese Crema notes Cremona notes Shock of the old Pictures from the moot Naming of things Per alta ad astra Writing on stone San Quirico, south of Sienna Poem Without Forgiveness Barefoot technology Pavlov’s smile More talk in Tuscany Today in Tuscany APL news La Vita Nuova Without elephants

May

What you do makes me cry at night Perhaps I can change my life Haw in Westminster Pynchon in Ireland Sad rappas The uncleansably rich, and other practitioners of forgetfulness Career watch Release the lost sheep from the spell Creole technology Balkan spice Bicycles beyond Brentwood Balkan beats Moved Last night’s Orient Express

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