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Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
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  • The right to be annoying

    For some reason, people have been asking me lately about the increasingly visible Trots at Spiked! and the Institute of Ideas. Why are they so cynical and snotty? What is it with the obsessive debunking? Why are they so annoying? Why are they everywhere? So I thought it might be useful to link to three…

  • Blunkett’s ‘coiled spring’ interview in The New Statesman

    “Britain, says the Home Secretary, is now “like a coiled spring”, febrile and tense, and ominously on the lookout for scapegoats. David Blunkett interviewed by John Kampfner. Pity anyone whose daily in-tray begins with terrorists making weapons in bedsits, continues with asylum-seekers being housed in hotels and ends with gangs on shooting sprees in city…

  • Words of Waldman

    Simon Waldman, a pioneer interpreter of the Internet to UK Plc (and the man responsible for The Guardian‘s absolute pre-eminence in cyberspace – perhaps also for its voodoo doll status among the warbloggers), has upgraded and redesigned his weblog. It’s got loads of good stuff in it.

  • Two good articles from The NYRB

    From the current New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson’s clever and humane review of Michael Crichton’s ‘Prey‘ – another blow against the tech determinists – and Timothy Garton Ash’s chilling and useful Anti-Europeanism in America.

  • Never mind congestion charging…

    …London needs one of these.

  • The extreme case

    Labour MP and DCMS Select Committee member Derek Wyatt has laid out the case for radical reform of the BBC – cutting it back to Radio 2, Radio 4 and BBC2 and scrapping or privatising everything else. He says “it is outrageous how much the BBC spends, unchecked by its pathetic board of governors, on…

  • What’s going on here, then?

    Found this in my referrer logs. Weird.

  • A sunny day in Soho

    It was a beautiful day in Soho. Spring is definitely in the air.

  • Online in Soho

    Blogging live via T-Mobile wi-fi from Star bucks in Wardour Street (about which I am, of course, very excited). Hotfoot from lunch with a headhunter who thinks all this blogging lark is so much self-obsession. What can she possibly mean?

  • Bowblog merchandise!

    I’ve always liked Cafe Press – a really simple way of creating and selling custom merchandise without actually having to do anything – so I thought I’d have a play with it and make some bowblog merch based on drawings by my son Oliver. Since there really is no good reason for you buy this…