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Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick
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  • 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…

  • Massive sense of proportion failure

    Is it just me or is it completely inappropriate to send a boy whose main crime seems to be a chronic case of adolescent alienation to jail for two years for the undoubtedly mischievous creation of a computer virus?