Tag: London
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Music that satisfies completely
From music we get all sorts of things. And one of them is completion. — I love jazz but even after decades of exposure to every different genre I’m still…
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Seeing Vincent
Tate Britain, London, 2019.
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Blimey. Look who’s on the fifth floor
UPDATE: you might have noticed that the tweets, pics and stories from Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit promised in this post have gone, deleted when live blogging company Storify went…
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I cold-called the man who invented the World Wide Web
1984. I’m well into my fourth ‘gap year’ (in fact, I’m redefining the term ‘gap’). I’m working at a telesales place in Queen’s Park. This telesales place is different from…
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Steampunk radio on the Victorian Internet
A remarkable story about Victorian media innovation — Radio is changing. The first digital radio platform – DAB – is in danger of being eclipsed before most of us have…
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London’s stabbing epidemic
The stabbing epidemic in London is puzzling. Not the grief and suffering of victims and families: that’s not puzzling (I get that part). It’s the behaviour of the perpetrators. It’s…
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Five reasons it might not be so bad to have Boris as Mayor after all
UPDATE April 2022. I’m leaving this up, although it’s obviously a bit embarrassing (and wrong – Johnson ultimately served two terms as Mayor). 1. The Mayor doesn’t have much to…