Told you I was feeling contrary. But the first two articles strike me as an excellent example of why magical target selection takes guts. Or, to borrow Jason’s terminology: “Emergency Magic”. Giving to Japan is like lighting a candle to pay your rent this month. Giving strategically to MSF is enchanting for wealth. Check...
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You may have heard the news elsewhere but the good Mr Miller has embarked on a little forced migration. His full note to readers is at the end of the post. Everyone is hereby ordered to amend their readers and blog rolls as appropriate. Also, here’s a little SEO tip for you fellow bloggers...
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Blargh. News media in the UK is awful today. More pictures of that woman from outside Slough who is marrying her horse. Something about the world’s most incompetent terrorists in Sweden (which is saying something when you remember pants guy and the Saudi who exploded a bomb in his own ass). Nothing there to...
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Maybe “honouring” isn’t the right word? It has the potential to trip people up. “Honouring” risks implying that there is some sort of vetting process; like there is a cosmic Simon Cowell who decides who is in and who is out. The best phrase I have seen for what we could call an ‘ideal...
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On the surface it might seem like a bit of a jump between doing my weekly online shop and precisely why you need a bucket list but go with me on it. 1) Structuring one part of your life structures the rest I live in Zone 2 and work in central London. This means...
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A dear school friend accompanied me on my recent trip to Nottingham. Through a series of ‘random’ coincidences, he has ended up as the general manager of a large event construction business within three years of graduating from university. On the other side of the world. Over five to six hundred beers in the...
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Oh, Sherlock Holmes. I never really liked you. You are an Edwardian Tory fantasy of upper class superiority and that doesn’t sit well with me. You expect me to believe that this meddling gentleman is somehow vastly superior to professional police officers and scientists who; like good plebeians; come cap-in-hand to one of their...
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I didn’t have high hopes for this show. Don’t get me wrong, I was always going to watch it. If you pay your license fee you might as well check in with the BBC whenever it produces a new comedy to see where your non-David-Attenborough money is being spent. In my head I figured...
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Having learnt a lesson from my previous train trip I opted to catch up on a few of my regular podcasts on the Eurostar. Because my eyes are always bigger than my stomach when it comes to holiday reading. It struck me that the first podcast I played yesterday covers areas that we regular...
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No, I don’t mean me. My DVD set (among many other things) arrived from Amazon this afternoon. We caught this series when it was broadcast on the BBC last year and it is unimaginably good. It will Barack your world. (I’m bringing it back.) Diarmaid is an Oxford University theology professor and the son...
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