January 24th, 2012
Casual racism continues in south London, how G****e is going to mess up the interwebs, Netflix and the Olympics being crass, Pauline Mole, Occupy the press, The Handmaid's Tale, and coffee cup sizes.
Posted in -isms, G****e, geekery, racism | Tags: Adrian Mole, censorship, coffee, Crass Spectacle, homophobia, internet culture, literature, Margaret Atwood, Netflix, newspapers, Occupy LSX, Pauline Mole, The Handmaid's Tale, Tim Horton's | No Comments »
January 19th, 2012
Adam Curtis on Russia and on Ghostwatch
. The woman who restructured Hamleys', David Graeber, Charlotte Church, iCarly fanfic, people named after petrol, Heathrow travel, a Remarkable Putdown, idiots in supermarkets, and pictures of ducklings.
Posted in BBC, crash of 2009, geekery, mythbusting, Politics, SUP, utter foolishness, Vladimir Poutine | Tags: Adam Curtis, automated checkouts, Charlotte Church, David Graeber, fanfic, Ghostwatch, Hamleys', Heathrow, iCarly, internet culture, London, Russia, Tom Sutcliffe | No Comments »
January 4th, 2012
Posted in BBC, cricket, economics, election, EU, GAA, Green Party, hurling, Ireland, Ken Livingstone, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, M. Popup, Mountain-West, Politics, predictions, radio, railways, television, transport, utter foolishness, Vladimir Poutine | Tags: Bashar al-Assad, Boise State, Celebrity Juice, City of London, Cripes Boris Crikey!, Democratic Republic of Congo, European Central Bank, France, HMV, Hunger Games, Iran, Israel, Kilkenney, Occupy LSX, Red 'n' Pink, Russia, Spotify, Syria, The Royals | No Comments »
January 3rd, 2012
Posted in cricket, glickoblog | No Comments »
December 29th, 2011
Posted in Barack de Bouwer, Clegg, crash of 2009, Dave the Eager Young Space Cadet, economics, Politics, predictions | Tags: Afghanistan, Egypt, euro, Korea, Red China, Sudan | 4 Comments »
December 27th, 2011
A brief history of the Christmas number one single, with emphasis on the The X Factor
era. CAUTION: Contains Benny Hill, the Flying Pickets, Mr Blobby, Westlife, Pete Waterman, some depressingly bad covers, and predictions for next year's charts.
Posted in Arts, charts, pop music | Tags: Band Aid, Biffy Clyro, Bob the Builder, Coldplay, Flying Pickets, Girls Aloud, Hallelujah, Leona Lewis, Little Mix, McFly, Mr Blobby, Mud, Rage Against the Machine, Ronan Keating, Simon Cowell, Slade, Spice Girls, Take That, The Climb, The X Factor, Westlife | No Comments »
December 20th, 2011
Posted in -isms, Birmingham, economics, geekery, Ireland, language usage, Livejourn'l, mass media, Politics, Vladimir Poutine | Tags: Birmingham University, consumerism, Debi Linton, Donald Trump, dumbing down, Mary Ann Sieghart, Trinity College Dublin | No Comments »
December 18th, 2011
Posted in advertisements, Ireland, mass media, Politics, radio, transport | Tags: adblock, Boris Johnson, Brighton, Daily Telegraph, Dublin, Laurie Penny, oldies | No Comments »
December 12th, 2011
Posted in EU, language usage, Politics, radio | Tags: Daily Mail, Jon Gaunt, journalism, Talk Radio UK, Talk Sport, Twilight, Virgin 1215 | No Comments »
December 11th, 2011
Posted in Facebook, geekery, mass media, Politics, privacy policy, radio | Tags: blatant lies, Kidderminster, occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Telford, Telford FM, The Severn, The Wyre | No Comments »
December 4th, 2011
Posted in Appalachian State, Atlantic Conference, BCS, Big East, Big Ten, Big Twelve, CUSA, glickoblog, Mid-American, Mountain-West, NCAA, Pacific Ten, South East, Sun Belt | Tags: Ball State, bias, Clemson, LSU, Michigan, Northern Illinois, Oregon, Southern Mississippi, western Michigan, Wisconsin | 2 Comments »
December 3rd, 2011
Those nominations in full, and examination of why there are no women on the shortlist. It's the Gentlemen of the Press, and ratings-chasing at the BBC.
Posted in -isms, BBC, mass media, Sport | Tags: Alastair Cook, Amir Khan, Andrew Strauss, Andy Murray, Dai Greene, Darren Clarke, Disney's Princesses, Luke Donald, magazines, Mark Cavendish, Mo Farah, newspapers, press, Rory McIlroy, sexism, Sports Personality of the Year, Sports Review of the Year, Zoo | 3 Comments »
December 2nd, 2011
Posted in Book reviews, Sport | Tags: The Observer | No Comments »
December 1st, 2011
Posted in -isms, Conservatives, crash of 2009, election, Green Party, Labour, philosophy, Politics, psephology | Tags: anarchy, bankers, banks, campsite, general assembly, hand signals, Peter Mandelson, process, revolution, social contract, St Paul's | No Comments »
