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• About me

  Housekeeping note (2) – all about me, me, me

  03.03.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I have been asked recently by more than one clearly crazed reader for a bit more biographical detail.
  Weirdos.
  Here’s something I wrote earlier.  Now leave me alone.

• About me

  You know you’re a real blogger when….

  10.09.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  You know you’re a real blogger when you’re invited by another blogger to talk all about yourself and your blog in that endlessly self-referential way which is reflective of so much of the blogosphere.
  Normblog does the best known profiles of this type, but he’s not asked me – presumably because I made it clear he’d only just [...]

• About me, The world beyond West Lancashire

  ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.’

  10.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three:  but the greatest of these is charity.’ (I Corinthians ch. 13.v.1).
  I’ll just take a moment from the hurly burly to mark the passing of Fr Aengus Finucane, the founder of Concern Worldwide, the aid agency I worked for for a number of years.
  I think we only met the [...]

• About me

  Thanks John

  09.18.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Quite by chance, in that slightly spooky kind of way when you even think it may not be completely by chance, I happened upon this photo-journalism coverage at the New York Times.
  It’s all about John Trotter, an American photographer who was attacked as he worked in Sacramento back in 1997, suffered major head injuries and [...]

• About me, Breaking News

  Nation likely to rejoice as Bickerstaffe Record saves taxpayer billions

  06.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  A little while ago the Bickerstaffe Record recommended to the government -  most ministers read the Record daily to find out what’s really what – that ID cards costing around £5 bn really had no place in future spending plans, and should be quietly forgotten.  
  Reports from the Financial Times indicate that the government may now have taken on board what we had [...]

• About me

  519, but who’s counting?

  05.23.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  You know, I meant to mark my 500th post by writing something like:
  ‘This is my 500th post.  Congratulations to me.’
  But I forgot.  Time passes quickly when you’re an old blogger.
  So here instead, to celebrate my 519th post, I offer up a completely pointless and entrirely narcissistic round up of my favourite posts since I started, based not on an [...]

• About me, Breaking News

  Tie competition

  04.29.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Mil and Brian have sort of ordered that a competition take place to decide what colour, pattern and shape my new tie should be, when I get one.  Mil will be horrified to know that the one I currently have is in fact yellow.
  Here are the competition rules:
  1 Send your ideas in the comments box thingy.
  2 Closing date [...]

• About me

  Getting stage fright, getting over it

  04.17.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Very strangely, within the course of around 10 hours today, I was:
  1) ‘followed’ on Twitter by Richard Angell, the current editor of Labourlist;
  2) asked by Sunny at Liberal Conspiracy if I’d like to post something there about ‘rural issues’ from a leftwing perspective;
  3) asked by the editor of another aggregated blog* whether I’d like to [...]

• About me

  Angry and bitter

  04.03.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Indulge me for a moment, this Friday-after-work, dear reader.
  Tom Harris, the famous blogger MP, has suggested I might benefit from sounding ‘a little less angry and bitter all the time’.
  Is he right?  Do I always sound ‘angry and bitter’?   Is he only reading the posts where I mention him, perhaps?
  Is it a bad thing to be [...]

• About me, Breaking News

  From Bickerstaffe to Sydney, via a clever guerilla, in Manila?

  02.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I note that I am now considered an interesting polemicist, albeit one who’s not very good with a spellchecker, by the interntational discourse analysis community, for my work on Laclau and Mouffe, which I mostly copied from Norm anyway.
  That wasn’t what I’d planned for 2009, but I note the next big shindig with professors and stuff is [...]

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