Invincible Summer

Concentrating wealth and power Sep 14, 2007 politics & software The rich have reversed the egalitarian progress of the mid-20th century, concentrating their wealth and power to levels not seen since the 1920s.

Good Deed Sep 13, 2007 arts & journal

The judge is a former radical civil-liberties barrister now draped in the scarlet robes of a High Court judge and out to deliver justice in the teeth of the police, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor’s Department and even his brother judges.

That was no movie, that was one of my colleagues… Sep 9, 2007

Web web web Sep 7, 2007 Scampering back to town on Friday night in time to dine with Yoko Fukada, passing through town. On Saturday indulged my weakness for flattery over

Bramley APLers Sep 5, 2007 journal & software Bunked up in Bramley

Kome back to Karavados Sep 4, 2007 We’re back in Karavados on Kefalonia, this time staying with friends Zakis & Theodora Kounadis. The pictures Miki posted last year snagged her an

Walking to work Aug 26, 2007

People ask me what it’s like to be an employee again, what it’s like working in Denmark and so on. Well, I get food and a place to sleep. All the

The water babies Aug 14, 2007

In we go It’s summer at last, so we’re back in Cambridge for this year’s picnic in Grantchester Meadows. Organised this year thanks to Ann

Cats and dogs Aug 11, 2007 humour Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.

A climate change for protest Aug 11, 2007 politics & views The government is encouraging the police to use anti-terrorism powers to “deal robustly” with the climate protesters at Heathrow airport, according

Beyond my toenails Aug 9, 2007 journal

Floating in the Øresund, the world’s busiest shipping channel

Losing people, finding people Aug 9, 2007 Bizarre. Through Web 2.0, miracle of the steam age, I’m reunited with John Craig. Back in the day, we were 20-something programmers at I.P. Sharp

Mr Ahmad’s extradition Aug 5, 2007 One of uglier aspects of our ‘special relationship’ with the US is the enactment in law of a treaty providing for rapid extradition to the US. Under

More dancing Aug 5, 2007

Alex and Moriah To the Royal Ballet Company’s summer school yesterday in Covent Garden to watch our 15-year-old couch surfer Alexandre Dahms perform

The Hollywood effect Aug 2, 2007 Is this the Hollywood effect in international relations? We watch horror and thriller films for the adrenaline rush of fear, and the relief when it

Give war a chance Aug 2, 2007 journal & politics A claim that only an idiot or a member of the British government could believe

Pynchon’s paternity Jul 24, 2007 Haven’t even opened the new Pynchon novel Against The Day yet and already Stefano Lanzavecchia in Milan is sending me a review discussing Pynchon’s

Orkestra del Sol at Glastonbury Jul 17, 2007 The maverick carnival band caught on camera with a huge balloon — lunacy, comedy a-and mud! And playing by Tower Bridge — a-and at dawn in Linz.

Pynchon and paranoia Jul 15, 2007 Fascinating rereading Pynchon after 2-3 decades. The density of the writing, the allusions. Images flying off at tangents. Writing about the

Cultural differences Jul 15, 2007 cycling & journal & wellbeing

If the English ever come to think it normal for work to be a joy, to spend one’s life working on matters one cares about, we shall have a second English Revolution at least as profound as the 17th century’s.