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Out of the park, RTD. Out of the fuckin park.
I just hope he can bring it home next week.
What is this archaic nonsense? Seems the only way we can vote for Eurovision in the UK is by making a phone call! What century is this?
Well, I’m not doing it. Iceland will have to do without my vote.
I wonder what they call VE Day in Germany?
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- Farewell, My Lovely, 1944 - ★★★½
- Books 2025, 12: The Age of Wire and String, by Ben Marcus
- Books 2025, 11: Blitzkreig Bops, by Alli Patton
- Waiting for Yellow Ribbons
- Paddington in Peru, 2024 - ★★½
- London Town, 2016 - ★★½
- Crucial Track for 11 May 2025: Walk on the Wild Side
- Books 2025, 10: The White Album, by Joan Didion
- Crucial Track for 02 May 2025: Sit Down
- Crucial Track for 1 May 2025: Mario Y Maria
- Masked and Anonymous, 2003 - ★★★½
- Incredible Story About the Smallpox Vaccine
- Crucial Track for 30 April 2025: Death or Glory
- Crucial Track for 29 April 2025: Hungry Heart
- Crucial Track for 28 April 2025: The Prince
- Crucial Track for 27 April 2025: Ticket to Ride
- Crucial Track for 26 April 2025: I'm So Free
- Crucial Track for 25 April 2025: Baby, I Love You
- Crucial Track for 24 April 2025: Leonard Cohen
- Crucial Track for 23 April 2025: Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- One to One: John & Yoko, 2024 - ★★★★★
- Crucial Track for 22 April 2025: No More Heroes
- Operation Mincemeat, 2021 - ★★½
- Crucial Track for 20 April, 2025: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- Crucial Track for 19 April, 2025: London Calling
- Crucial Track for 18 April, 2025: Another Girl Another Planet
- Crucial Track for 17 April, 2025: If I Can't Change Your Mind
- I'm Still Here, 2024 - ★★★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 9: The Interpreter, by Brian Aldiss
- 📗 Books 2025, 8: The History of Rock ‘n‘ Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, 2024 - ★★★★½
- The Ipcress File, 1965 - ★★★★
- The Philadelphia Story, 1940 - ★★★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 7: The Productions of Time, by John Brunner
- 📗 Books 2025, 6: The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie
- The Severed Floor is not the Black Lodge
- Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
- 📗 Books 2025, 5: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
- 📗Books 2025, 4: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
- Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 - ★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 3: The Great When, by Alan Moore
- Blogging and reading in 2024
- 📗 Books 2025, 2: Vivaldi and the Number 3, by Ron Butlin
- Tales From Right Now
- 📗 Books 2025, 1: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
- A Complete Unknown, 2024 - ★★★★★
- Unpleasant Men
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 - ★★★½
- 📚 Books 2024, 26: Conclave by Robert Harris
- 📚 Books 2024, 25: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 📚 Books 2024, 24: A Jura for Julia by Ken MacLeod
- Conclave, 2024 - ★★★½
- 📚 Books 2024, 23: Death's End by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu
- It Happened One Night, 1934 - ★★★★
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988 - ★★½
- Trumpeting
- 📚 Books 2024, 22: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, Translated by Joel Martinsen
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000 - ★★★★★
- Persepolis, 2007 - ★★★★
- Memories, Facebook, and The Clash
- 📚 Books 2024, 21: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu , Translated by Ken Liu
- Spectre, 2015 - ★★
- 1984: A Year With Gravity
- Adam's Rib, 1949 - ★★½
- Evil Under the Sun, 1982 - ★★½
- California Suite, 1978 - ★★★
- What's Up, Doc?, 1972 - ★★★★
- The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★
- Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - ★★
- Wicked Little Letters, 2023 - ★★★
- To the Polls!
- One More Week to Hang On
- The Man with Two Brains, 1983 - ★★★
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, 2022 - ★★★★
- Spotlight, 2015 - ★★★★
- Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 - ★★★
- Perfect Days, 2023 - ★★★★½
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, 1988 - ★★★★
- Game Night, 2018 - ★★★★
- Society of the Snow, 2023 - ★★★½
- Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★½
- The Aviator’s Wife, 1981 - ★★★★
- Part 3 of the Bucatini Trilogy
- Dune, 2021 - ★★½
- Days of the Bagnold Summer, 2019 - ★★★½
- My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, 1987 - ★★★
- Custom and Use
- A Good Marriage, 1982 - ★★★
- The Harder They Come, 1972 - ★★★
- 📚 Books 2024, 2: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- 📚 Books 2024, 1: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★★½
- Maestro, 2023 - ★★½
- Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (Books 2023, 27) 📚
- Saltburn, 2023 - ★★½ (contains spoilers)
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Books 2023, 26) 📚
- Nine to Five, 1980 - ★★★★
- The Holiday, 2006 - ★★★
- Who Do You Think You Both Are?
- The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Books 2023, 25) 📚
- The Affirmation by Christopher Priest (Books 2023, 24) 📚
- … And Took the Road for Heaven in the Morning
- 8½, 1963 - ★★★
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Books 2023, 23)📚
- All About Eve, 1950 - ★★★½
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler (Books 2023, 22) 📚
- A Star Is Born, 1976 - ★★★
- GoodFellas, 1990 - ★★★½
- White Riot by Joe Thomas (Books 2023, 21) 📚
- Velvet Goldmine, 1998 - ★★
- The Exorcist, 1973 - ★★½
- Tenet, 2020 - ★★★½
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Books 2023, 20) 📚
- The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Books 2023, 19) 📚
- The Net, 1995 - ★★½
- Canal Dreams by Iain Banks (Books 2023, 18) 📚
- A Star Is Born, 1954 - ★★½
- Fatal Revenant: The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 2 by Stephen Donaldson (Books 2023, 17) 📚
- In the Heat of the Night, 1967 - ★★★
- Straight to Hell, 1987 - ★★
- Frances Ha, 2012 - ★★★½
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Books 2023, 16) 📚
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Books 2023, 15) 📚
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Books 2023, 13) 📚
- The Runes of the Earth: The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1 by Stephen Donaldson (Books 2023, 12) 📚
- The City & the City by China Mieville (Books 2023, 11) 📚
- The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952 - ★★★½
- Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962 - ★★★½
- The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling (Books 2023, 10) 📚
- Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★½
- Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★
- Falling for Figaro, 2020 - ★★
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (Books 2023, 9) 📚
- Chevalier, 2022 - ★★½
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997 - ★★
- Films, Books, Blogging, and Giving Up
- The Matrix Resurrections, 2021 - ★★★½
- Blue Jean, 2022 - ★★½
- The Green Ray, 1986 - ★★★
- After Love, 2020 - ★★½
- Pain and Glory, 2019 - ★★★
- Punk Publishing: A DIY Guide, by Andy Conway & David Wake (Books 2023, 8) 📚
- Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★½
- Beyond the Reach of Earth by Ken McLeod (Books 2023, 7) 📚
- A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Books 2023, 6) 📚
- Interzone 294 Edited by Gareth Jelley (Books 2023, 5) 📚
- Sister Act, 1992 - ★★★
- On the Basis of Sex, 2018 - ★★★
- The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald, Translated by Michael Hulse (Books 2023, 4) 📚
- Suzanne on the Stage
- Penny-Farthings and Paranoia
- Gosford Park, 2001 - ★★★½
- Comfort and Joy, 1984 - ★★★ (contains spoilers)
- Our Man Flint, 1966 - ★★½
- Tár, 2022 - ★★★★
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua (Books 2023, 3) 📚
- Bomber Jackson Does Some by Bob Boyton (Books 2023, 2) 📚
- All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★★½
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★
- Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021 - ★★★★
- Together We Will Go by J Michael Straczynski (Books 2023, 1) 📚
- A Look Back at my 2022
- RRR, 2022 - ★★★½
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Books 2022, 33) 📚
- Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★★
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★
- The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli (Books 2022, 32) 📚
- Nothing Compares, 2022 - ★★★½
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★★
- Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin (Books 2022, 31) 📚
- Twenty Years Without Joe
- Illuminations by Alan Moore (Books 2022, 30) 📚
- Falling for Christmas, 2022 - ★★½
- The Silencers, 1966 - ★½
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Jennifer Croft (Books 2022, 29)
- Next Songs, Elon Musk, and Joe Strummer
- The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 28)
- The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★
- Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 27)
- Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 26)
- Barry Lyndon, 1975 - ★★★½
- Wednesday Night is Music Night
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 25)
- God Save Your Mad Parade
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 24)
- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 23)
- Molly's Game, 2017 - ★★★½
- The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 22)
- The Title of The Smiths' Third Album
- Excession by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 21)
- Dead Air by Iain Banks (Books 2022, 20)
- All the President's Men, 1976 - ★★★½
- The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 19)
- The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick (Books 2022, 18)
- Interzone Issue 292/293 Edited by Andy Cox (Books 2022, 17)
- We're No Angels, 1955 - ★★½
- The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester (Books 2022, 16)
- The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Books 2022, 15)
- Still Life by Val McDermid (Books 2022, 14)
- A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson (Books 2022, 13)
- Software and Wetware by Rudy Rucker (Books 2022, 11 and 12)
- Ubik by Philip K Dick (Books 2022, 10)
- Bloody Ebooks!
- Inverted World by Christopher Priest (Books 2022, 9)
- V for Vendetta, 2005 - ★★½
- V for Vendetta, 2005 - ★★½
- The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox (Books 2022, 8)
- Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan (Books 2022, 7)
- Easy A, 2010 - ★★★
- Easy A, 2010 - ★★★
- Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★★
- Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★★
- The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2022, 4–6)
- A Room with a View, 1986 - ★★½
- A Room with a View, 1985 - ★★½
- Pitch Perfect, 2012 - ★★★½
- Miss Sloane, 2016 - ★★★
- Pitch Perfect, 2012 - ★★★½
- Miss Sloane, 2016 - ★★★
- Propaganda and Suffering
- The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★
- The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★
- Withnail & I, 1987 - ★★★★
- Withnail & I, 1987 - ★★★★
- 13th, 2016 - ★★★½
- 13th, 2016 - ★★★½
- Legally Blonde, 2001 - ★★★
- Legally Blonde, 2001 - ★★★
- Dateline: 2022-02-22
- The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Books 2022, 3)
- Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks (Books 2022, 2)
- The Word on Wordle
- You Can Call Me Master
- Out, and Into Town
- The Beatles: Get Back, 2021 - ★★★★★
- Cold Winter Morning
- Nomadland, 2020 - ★★★½
- Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½
- Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod (Books 2021, 28)
- Lost at Christmas, 2020 - ★★★
- Starting the Year (and a Brief Look Back)
- Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 - ★★★½
- A Note I'd Like to Send Back Through Time
- Planetfall by Emma Newman (Books 2021, 27)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Books 2021, 26)
- Pour One Out for Joe
- 'Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★★'
- Comet Weather by Liz Williams (Books 2021, 25)
- A Song Needs Words
- Boosted
- 'The Beatles: Get Back, 2021 - ★★★★★'
- The French Dispatch, 2021 - ★★★★
- The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren (Books 2021, 23)
- Get Back to Christmas
- The Origin of Angels?
- Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (Books 2021, 22)
- Songs and Singles
- Adventures in Mac Repairs
- Count Zero by William Gibson (Books 2021, 21)
- No Country for Old Men, 2007 - ★★½
- The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★★½
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (Books 2021, 20)
- Our Last, Best, Hope for TV?
- Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray (Books 2021, 19)
- The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 - ★★★
- Rusty's Return
- First Line of Defence?
- Dissertation Submitted
- An American Story by Christopher Priest (Books 2021, 18)
- One Week Away
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (Books 2021, 17)
- Big Planet by Jack Vance (Books 2021, 16)
- Whit by Iain Banks (Books 2021, 15)
- MA Latest
- The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 - ★★★½
- London Centric: Tales of Future London, Edited by Ian Whates (Books 2021, 14)
- The Exes by Pagan Kennedy (Books 2021, 13)
- Who's Next?
- Dragonfly, or Not?
- Passport to Pimlico, 1949 - ★★★★
- Multiple Points
- Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden (Books 2021, 12)
- Black Widow, 2021 - ★★★★
- Summerwater by Sarah Moss (Books 2021, 11)
- Hinton by Mark Blacklock (Books 2021, 10)
- Hit Me Up in the Comments
- Not So Quiet
- Not Killing It
- Two Weeks
- Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (Books 2021, 9)
- Single Points
- Jonathan Richman and the Handwritten Interview
- Friends: The Reunion, 2021 - ★★★
- That Summer Feeling
- It's Never Good When a Useful Site Gets Bought
- Vax 2
- Can't Get You Out of My Head, 2021
- Mark E Smith (Co-)Wrote a Screenplay
- BSAG On Creativity
- Winter’s Writing
- Sisters with Transistors, 2020 - ★★★★
- Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Books 2021, 7)
- Pastieland and Getting Sick
- Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan (Books 2021, 6)
- Ocean's Eight, 2018 - ★★★½
- A Dead Cat in Downing Street
- At the Olympic Park Again
- OffMail
- Emma., 2020 - ★★★
- This Is England, 2006 - ★★★★
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Books 2021, 5)
- Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 - ★★★★
- North Star
- Bookshops are Back
- Good Vibrations, 2012 - ★★★★
- Palm Springs, 2020 - ★★★★½
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Books 2021, 4)
- On Giving Up On a Book
- End of Term 2
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, 1987 - ★★★½
- Alphaville, 1965 - ★★★
- They Don't Call it 'Fastmail' for Nothing
- Astral Zen
- This Is A Test
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things, 2020 - ★★½
- Corona Vu
- The Mystery of Henri Pick, 2019 - ★★★★
- Education, 2020 - ★★★½
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Books 2021, 3)
- No Project, Plenty of Fear
- After the Money's Gone
- The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1993 - ★★½
- The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1993 - ★★½
- A Year Passes Like Nothing
- Pretend It's a City, 2021 - ★★★½
- Rocks, 2019 - ★★★★
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Books 2021, 2)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Books 2021, 1)
- Red, White and Blue, 2020 - ★★★★
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, 2019 - ★★★★½
- Official Secrets, 2019 - ★★★★
- It's the Wrong Time of Year for Shorts
- Lovers Rock, 2020 - ★★★½
- Mangrove, 2020 - ★★★★
- Rebecca, 2020 - ★★★
- The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019 - ★★★½
- Four Years Gone
- Performing Pages
- A Pasta Mystery
- Blog Stats 2020
- The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick (Books 2020, 30)
- Endings
- Xstabeth by David Keenan (Books 2020, 29)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Books 2020, 28)
- Rees-Mogg and the New Depths
- The Towers The Fields The Transmitters by David Keenan (Books 2020, 27)
- Stop Your Glasses Steaming Up by Sticking the Top of Your Mask to Your Face Using Micropore Tape
- Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72 by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2020, 26)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Books 2020, 25)
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Books 2020, 24)
- Masters Update
- When Election Night Went On For Days
- Writing About Writing About Typography
- The Secret Place by Tana French (Books 2020, 23)
- In the Sky With Diamonds
- Wheeling the Reinvention
- Colliding Names
- Covid Track
- Not Discworld, Not Batman
- When the Going Gets WEIRD
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Books 2020, 22)
- How I'm Going To Master this Writing Lark
- How Johnson’s Lawbreaking Plans Will Harm the UK
- Walker, 1987 - ★★★½
- If the Prime Minister's a Junkie, the Public Has a Right to Know
- On Devs
- Another Superb Nightmare Courtesy of Charlie Kaufman?
- Woolf Banks
- Arrival, 2016 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers)
- My Contributions to Nikola
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Books 2020, 21)
- Ad Subtract
- 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
- The Guardian Might Stop Being a Printed Paper
- People Still Aren't Getting It
- Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate by Robin Sloan (Books 2020, 20)
- HEY, Ho, Let's Not Go
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Books 2020, 19)
- Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Books 2020, 18)
- The Latest Tory Plan to Attack the NHS
- The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire by Bryan Talbot (Books 2020, 16 & 17)
- A Reply From the Masks Petition
- The Monster (Wear a Mask!)
- The Cold War Never Ended
- Tell Them to Tell Us to Wear a Mask
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Books 2020, 15)
- Friday by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 14)
- You Are Your Thoughts (I Think)
- Assignment in Eternity vols 1 & 2 by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 12 & 13)
- Site Update
- The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 11)
- What Must Be Said
- How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus
- Peel Sessions
- Beyond This Horizon by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 10)
- Glasgow Fairytale by Alastair D McIver (Books 2020, 9)
- Boiling a Frog by Christoper Brookmyre (Books 2020, 8)
- We Have No Idea How Many of the Deaths Attributed to Covid-19 Really Were Due to the Disease
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Books 2020, 7)
- Lying Sack
- The Beat(les) Generation is Slipping Away
- Tip: How to Snooze iPhone Alarms Using Hardware Buttons
- Homemade Rolls
- This Is No Time to Unlock
- When Harry Met Sally..., 1989 - ★★★★
- Returning Blogs
- No More...
- Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade (Books 2020, 6)
- Static Leads to Static
- Repairability Is Good
- Tate and Tennant Killing It
- Misbehaviour, 2020 - ★★★½
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Books 2020, 5)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988 - ★★★
- Sunset Boulevard, 1950 - ★★★½
- Website Changes
- The Last Bike Ride
- Howl's Moving Castle, 2004 - ★★★★½
- Erin Brockovich, 2000 - ★★★★
- Wear a Mask! And Celebrate Your Immune System
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Books 2020, 4)
- The Big Short, 2015 - ★★½
- Writing News
- Crazy Rich Asians, 2018 - ★★★½
- Venturing Out: A Status Report from Hackney
- Bajrangi Bhaijaan, 2015 - ★★★★★
- Booksmart, 2019 - ★★★½
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Books 2020, 3)
- The Clash On Display
- Glen Matlock Remembers How to Rock, but Nearly Forgets the Songs That Put Him Where He Is
- Late Night, 2019 - ★★★
- Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★½
- Fighting with My Family, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★
- The Cabin in the Woods, 2011 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers)
- Springsteen On Broadway, 2018 - ★★★★
- Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 2)
- The End of the Dream. The Start of the Resistance
- Thing 2: Horsin’ Around
- Thing 1: How Good is the Place?
- In the Departure Lounge
- Irony Failure Among Elite Headteachers
- Who, Yes!
- Little Women, 2019 - ★★★★
- Brazil, 1985 - ★★★★★
- JetBrains Mono: Equal or Not
- Who the What?
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 1)
- 2019 in Bloggery
- Christmas Day by the Lea (or Lee)
- Transition by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 25)
- Eyes Full of Tinsel and Fire
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Books 2019, 24)
- Calling From London
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 23)
- Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★½
- OA Going Away
- Broken Glass
- The Politics We Deserve?
- Fear and Loathing All Over the Land
- Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★½
- You Gev It Away
- Watchmen on TV
- The Favourite, 2018 - ★★★
- Labour and Antisemitism
- The Book of Dust vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 22)
- Election Debates: Maybe Better Left
- Kieron's Comic, Brontë's Book
- His Dark Materials on TV
- I, Daniel Blake, 2016 - ★★★★★
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Books 2019, 21)
- Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 18, 19 & 20)
- 8 Women, 2002 - ★★★
- Election Blues
- On Pausing Stories
- For Sama, 2019 - ★★★★★
- Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2019, 17)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 16)
- More on Tarantino
- Otherhood, 2019 - ★★★½
- Inglourious Basterds, 2009 - ★★★★
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Books 2019, 15)
- Downton Abbey, 2019 - ★★★★
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 - ★★★½
- The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet, Translated by Sam Taylor (Books 2019, 14)
- Isle of Dogs, 2018 - ★★★★
- The End of Newspaper Delivery
- Jason & Dan
- The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Books 2019, 12)
- What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Books 2019, 11)
- Milkman by Anna Burns (Books 2019, 10)
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Books 2019, 9)
- Touch by Claire North (Books 2019, 8)
- In Dreams: A Unified Interpretation of Twin Peaks & Other Selected Works of David Lynch, by H Perry Horton (Books 2019, 7)
- Europe Elects
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 6)
- Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassady (Books 2019, 5)
- Two Wheels Good
- New Job Obtained
- Words Matter. Phrasing Matters
- Job Changing
- Parrots! In Hackney!
- EU Citizens
- Marina's on Fire Again
- OK/Cancel
- Partners
- What's Next for Brexit?
- The Beats: a Very Short Introduction (Books 2019, 4)
- England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, by Jon Savage (Books 2019, 3)
- Chile Trip, Part 3: Valparaíso, City of Colour
- The Honest Graffitologist
- Unhelpful Thoughts On Brexit
- We Are The Clash by Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki (Books 2019, 2)
- The Compulsive Pursuit of a Product That Does Us Only Harm
- Bragging
- Nick Cave on AI and Songwriting
- “Why’s it taking so long? We should just leave!” | The Reinvigorated Programmer
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Books 2019, 1)
- Italian Coffee is the Best
- Bing Me the Head of the Marketing Team
- Who's Who?
- Blogging the Bitface, 2018 Style
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (Books 2018, 31)
- Stormwatch by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch (Books 2018, 30)
- The Drifters by James A Michener (Books 2018, 29)
- I’m In A Book About The Clash
- Atmosphere
- EU Figures Rule Out Concessions as May Postpones Brexit Vote
- Na? No
- Rude and Rough
- Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
- Ex-Corbyn Fan
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2018, 28)
- March in October
- Chile Trip, Part 2: Santiago, Street Art, and More
- Promethea by Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray & Todd Klein (Books 2018, 27)
- Musical Malady
- Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2018, 26)
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Books 2018, 25)
- This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (Books 2018, 24)
- Chile Trip Part 1: There and Back
- Gilded Cage, Tarnished City, and Bright Ruin by Vic James (Books 2018, 21, 22, 23)
- Same Desert, Same Day
- Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock (Books 2018, 20)
- The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 19)
- Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 18)
- The Great Banksie Reread
- Radically Interoperable and Universal
- REPL Reply
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 17)
- Trumping Through London
- Matter by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 16)
- Inversions by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 15)
- Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 14)
- Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 13)
- They Took Something Very Weird and Made It More Usable
- New iPad Keyboard
- Microsoft to Buy GitHub?
- A ride in the sky at All Points East.
- Beware of Email Apps Storing Passwords
- It's Inconvenient to Talk
- The Book of Dust vol 1: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (Books 2018, 12)
- Office Foliage
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Books 2018, 11)
- Duplex Duplicity?
- Looped
- Spring
- Top-Ten Album Lists
- Marathon Barbers
- Injection Vols 1-3 by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire (Books 2018, 10)
- Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Books 2018, 9)
- Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Books 2018, 8)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2018, 7)
- The Audrey and Eddie Show
- Tab Convert
- 2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Books 2018, 6) 📚🎵
- Speaking of Spring...
- How the Seasons Change
- Looks Like I Chose the Wrong Week to Start Working in Academia
- Imperial Adventures
- A Special Way of Being Afraid
- Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (Books 2018, 5)
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan (Books 2018, 4)
- Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 3)
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon (Books 2018, 2) 📚🎵
- The Fallen
- Star Doctors
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Books 2018, 1)
- Clarke Kickstarted
- Lana, What?
- I Never Thought I'd See the Day...
- Crazy Copyright Claim
- Mouse Takes Fox
- Burn it With Fire (Stick)
- A Five and Four Zeroes
- Finished
- Jerusalem by Alan Moore (Books 2017, 5)
- Rock and Death
- Missing Dates
- To Nano or Not?
- On Blade Runner 2049
- Faces and Feeds
- The Kickstarter Corporate Communication Conundrum
- Blades and Running
- Trekking
- Harvest Home
- Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Books 2017, 4)
- Setting Myself Free of the Bear (and Others)
- New Job
- Some Open-Source Software for Your Delectation
- Not the Nails I'm Looking For
- Site Moved
- Mayday for Human Rights
- Mayhemic Mistake of Two-Year Parliament
- Great New Phone; All the Wrong Reasons
- Micro.blog iOS Going Universal | Manton Reece
- A Firefighter's Words On Grenfell Tower
- General Election: Vote!
- Right Wing Pirates to Plague the Med
- Extreme Pyramid Scheme
- Losing the War on Terror
- BBC Close Their Store Without Explaining Why
- The Sound of Audio Formats
- Landmark European Court Case Could Curtail Freedoms of British Dual Nationals
- Space Suits You
- Wood and Puzzles
- Protect the Human Rights Act
- The Syllogism of Betrayal
- The Luxury of Outrage
- Smile, You're on Emoji Camera
- Spout Rolla
- Scattered Thoughts on the General Election
- Everything Rhymes
- So, Entitled
- BSFA Awards 2016 by Various (Books 2017, 3)
- Margaret Atwood's Uncanny Ancestor
- You Choose
- Swim, Test, Shop, Film, Sleep
- Looking Back and Forward
- Punk and Hugo
- Big Mac News
- Interesting Lineup
- Brexit and Northern Ireland
- Another Kind of Town
- Some Town
- The Night Before
- Singles
- Publishers and Sinners
- Demo
- So Many Black Pixels...
- Podcast Ads and Pricing
- Laptop Ban Stranger Than I Thought
- Stupid Fawning Lapdog Government Apes the US Again
- Vanessa Bell and Princess Leia
- The Return of SonoAir
- Wiretaps and Wipeouts
- Broadchurch Thoughts
- And Then it Was All That
- Saved Life
- Interrupting-Kids Video and Analysis Thereof
- Misbehaviour Again
- Whether You Want To Or Not
- Stiff Little Memories
- Missed Again: What a Catastrophe
- Little, Feat...
- The Writing Process
- Pivoting Around Words
- Reassessing
- Footnotes Revisited
- Under the Television Skies
- Tory MP Claims Astrology Could Help the NHS
- Memorials
- Oscar Action
- More Network Nonsense
- Mac Wishing
- Wifi Blues
- “Ping” Pong
- Civil Disappointment
- Maybe
- Whoops!
- Brain Explain
- Great Brexit
- Right Message, Wrong Messenger
- Why Liberals Are Wrong About Trump
- It's Not Tomorrow if You Haven't Gone to Sleep yet
- All the Things in the World
- Why Are MPs Doing It?
- Brexit Hope?
- Placeholder
- Daily Posting Harder When You're Away
- Ticket Captcha Fail
- "Thread" Dread
- Optics
- International Clash Day
- Criticality Escalation
- Should a Blog Have a Theme?
- Some More Bitface Thoughts
- The Origin of the Bitface
- Success for Micro.blog
- Beginning of the End
- One Month Gone
- Which is Worse?
- Things We Can’t See
- Lost Drafts
- Rezillos Gig
- Democracy, Representation, and the Will of the People
- Obama in Your Ears
- A Song of Stone by Iain Banks (Books 2017, 2)
- I Wrote to my MP
- More on The OA
- Trump, Nixon, and Subjectivity
- Trumpeting
- Poetry and Politics
- Thanks, Obama (for Real)
- The Only Good Brexit is No Brexit
- The Strange Case of the Lost Reply
- Oh, Eh?
- Probably a Good Time to Download Your Twitter Archive
- Just to Make the Numbers
- Duck(Duck)ing the User Interface
- Surely There's a Better Answer Than That?
- Blog Misbehaviour
- Independent Microblogging
- Content Provider
- Things That Should be Easy
- Getting Rid of Offensive Publications in Apple News Widget
- Trump Not Appointing Palin as Scientific Advisor
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost (Books 2017, 1)
- Recent Events
- The Year Turns Again
- Complicity and The Business by Iain Banks (Books 2016 16 & 17)
- Classy
- Again, Again
- Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2016, 15)
- Can We Stick With Labour Now?
- Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by Amy Raphael (Books 2016, 14)
- Trump/Schulz
- On the Pronunciation of "X"
- Huffington Trump
- Reamde By Neal Stephenson (Books 2016, 13)
- The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and others (Books 2016, 12)
- Normal by Warren Ellis (Books 2016, 11)
- Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Books 2016, 10)
- The Sadness of Empty Seats
- Proposed New Cycling Race for the Olympics: the "Commuter Race"
- Smith & Jones
- Jerry Doyle Dead
- Some Thoughts On Software Development
- Brexit Latest Thoughts
- Self-Hosting
- Laurie Penny Rules
- On Corbyn, Electability, and Compromise
- Recent Events
- He is not a team player let alone a team leader
- Pamela Constable on her parents' WASP values
- After Nice, Don’t Give ISIS What It’s Asking For
- Putting the "Mental" into Governmental
- Pokémon Gone
- How in the World are they Making that Sound?
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Books 2016, 9)
- Sixty-Three Percent
- The Reinvigorated Programmer on the Referendum
- More Referendum Thoughts
- Referendum Thoughts
- The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Books 2016, 8)
- A Day of Infamy
- Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (Books 2016, 7
- The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Books 2016, 6)
- Relaunch
- I Upgraded my MacBook
- Awakening
- Selfie Thoughts
- Patience by Daniel Clowes (Books 2016, 5)
- Daily Mail Taking Over Yahoo?
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (Books 2016, 4)
- Patience
- The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Books 2016, 3)
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K Dick (Books 2016, 2)
- Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, by China Miéville (Books 2016, 1)
- PC
- January
- Moffat Leaving Who
- Java isn't slow
- Woman Who Shot at Home Depot Shoplifters Vows to Never Help Anyone Again - The New York Times
- Revenge of the Prequels
- Hell and Heaven
- Memories of 2003
- Heaven and Lords
- Raven and... What?
- Sleep and No Raven?
- Invasion and Inversion
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2015, 9)
- Apprentice and Familiar
- Attack of the Clowns, or: Send in the Clones
- Died and Lived
- Lake and Flood
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Books 2015, 8)
- Leadership
- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Books 2015, 7)
- On Djs, Beats 1, and Talking Over Songs
- Mind of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (Books 2015, 6)
- Drive-By Brucellosis
- The South’s Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag
- Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (books, 2015, 5)
- The Phantom Menace
- Test from Editorial
- Today's xkcd is weirdly compelling
- The Tories want to reintroduce the Lord Chamberlain
- The night after, and shame
- On things never seen
- Neither tempestuous nor particularly challenging
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Books 2015, 4)
- Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
- Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (books 2015, 3)
- The first time
- URLs and searching
- On missing out on Zane
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Books 2015, 2)
- Sons of Bill, Hoxton.
- Never really expected to get another new Iain Banks book. But here we are.
- At Hackney Downs station.
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Books 2015, 1)
- Newsflash: the Firefly guys were villains
- Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (Books 2014, 20)
- Eclipse SVN key bindings not working
- The Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 19)
- Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Books 2014, 18)
- The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 17)
- An elective monarchy, again
- Sir Gawain and the Green Night translated by Bernard O'Donoghue (Books 2014, 15)
- How to fix the UK constitution
- Netflix: because your DVDS are allll the way over there
- Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: the Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook (Books 2014, 14)
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Books 2014, 13)
- Thin
- Hijacked
- Dotter of her Father's Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot (Books 2014, 12)
- EU 'benefit tourism' court ruling is common sense, says Cameron
- On Writing by AL Kennedy (Books 2014, 11)
- MPs to escape expenses investigations after paperwork destroyed by Parliament - Telegraph
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (books, 2014, 10)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Books 2014, 9)
- Suzi Q, where are you?
- BBC Music Greatest Covers
- The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Books 2014, 8)
- The tragedy of the Liberal Democrats
- Space bat angel dragons hatch in their own way
- The morning after
- Andy's unpunctuated ambiguity
- Awra Best, Scotland
- Waving
- Panic in Westminster
- Chatsworth Road Festival, September 2014
- Hackney's latest piece of gentrification: comics
- Oncoming independence?
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2014, 7)
- Pavane by Keith Roberts (Books, 2014, 6)
- Aye, (Head)Phones
- Kippers for Tea
- Religion, Faith Schools, and 'The Great Pumpkin'
- The State of Me, by Nasim Marie Jafry (Books 2014, 4)
- Secret Diaries
- The First Three Books of the Year
- Link: The One Correct Way to do Dependency Injection | Schauderhaft
- Tony Benn
- Some People Left for Heaven Without Warning...
- Weirdest Customer Request?
- Another Lost Month, and Unpublished Posts
- Missing Months
- 2001: The aliens that almost were
- The Summer of Rereading, 3: More Culture
- The Summer of Rereading, 2: A Culture of Marvel and Miracles
- He's really a guitar player but he uses a camera
- The Summer of Rereading 1: The Magus, by John Fowles
- Cultural Times
- Forgot the Cry of Gulls
- We Are The Clash: The Last Stand of a Band That Mattered by Mark Andersen & Ralph Heibutzki — Kickstarter
- The Third-Person Sanctimonious
- The Scented City
- Understanding a Misunderstanding
- Hackney Sunset
- Pulp Magazine Covers for All
- Day Trip
- Strange Blog Behaviour
- November spawned some words (but not that many)
- Warren Ellis on Writing Dialogue
- Scapple: new from Literature and Latte
- New Camera; Also Reviewing Purchases
- Generation: Inspired
- Olympics: fencing and more Park views
- Olympics: some photos from the Park
- Olympian Achievements
- Google is Buying Sparrow, but not Updating the Apps
- A British Court Bans a TV Broadcast
- Tip: using Pandoc to create truly standalone HTML files
- Bash - how to recursively find the latest modified file in a directory
- Weekend Warblers
- A Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Timey-Wimeyness
- Voting Time Again
- Weird Law-Enforcement Things
- A Drop of the Hard Stuff
- Paul Weller in "Good Album" Shock!
- Desperate sun-seekers
- Eyelash car
- Penguin Pete's Blog - Using Bash To Solve A Brain Teaser
- In an astounding example of metaness, this Instagram pic should generate a blog post, using ifttt.com
- Terror, or Not; and Bail
- Pass-By-Reference Problem When Using Websphere Application Server
- Your Friendly Olympic Park
- Cluttered by Google, Lost by Bing
- The Felice Brothers
- Autumn Roses
- The Words that Maketh Novels
- Smashing Things Up for 35 Years
- 88 Lines About The End Of Reasons To Leave The Elements
- Aliens Among Us
- Hardcore Knows the Score
- Golden times of British TV comedy
- Intrusive login options
- Boycott News International for life? I already did.
- World of the Newspaper
- Rainy Day Music and SF at the BL
- [H]is baritone sax tugged at the bottom of the track like taffy on the sole of a sneaker.
- Father's Weekend
- Tell, and Maybe Show as Well
- Let's All Say "Yes"
- Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
- Emusic Followup
- Emusic and Re-downloading
- Come Gather Round, People
- Thoughts on Business Sectors
- Link: Writers’ Bloc – a Literary Band
- Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing
- New Year Activities
- New?
- NoNo
- Tank-Tops and Dolls
- The Day After Hallowe'en
- Maccetty Mac
- Link: Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Romeo to Rambo
- Summer Reading 2010
- Moat Again
- Who Lays Flowers for a Murderer?
- Con/Dem Nation?
- Election Tweets 'n' Stuff
- The Big Disappointment
- Link: How to Write a Story, by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Link: "Long-standing party loyalties, even in a less tribal world, are not easily suspended"
- From Easter to Volcano Days
- Subway Calling
- Easter Time is Here Again
- Magnetism
- Next-Door to a Sequel
- Link: An Awesome Interpretation of Avatar
- Decade's End
- Link: A Self-Referential Story
- A quote from Amanda Palmer: asking for money for your art is not selling out
- Link: Do I know where hell is? Hell is in "Hello"
- Link: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise
- Transitions in Real Life?
- Live Jello show
- Michael Marshall Smith speaks wisely on opinions on the internet
- I really need to post more
- Publication
- Without Twitter, how will we know what's happening?
- Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2008, 21)
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Books 2008, 20)
- The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson (books 2008, 19)
- Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Books 2008, 18)
- Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)
- A poem
- Adverbs, by Daniel Handler (Books 2008, 16)
- American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)
- Halting State, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 13)
- Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut, by Warren Ellis and D'Israeli (Books 2008, 14)
- Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer (Books 2008, 12)
- I'll stand before the Lord of Song
- Too long gone
- Yes you can!
- Queues
- Worrier president
- A quote from Warren Ellis
- ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
- Corporal punishment: not on my watch
- I phone, you phone
- Mad bampot on a rope
- Exciting times
- Watermelon Sculpture
- A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (Books, 2008, 10)
- The London cabbie: good and bad
- What's that stand for?
- FF3 on Linux
- The Gun Club
- A Dream of Wessex, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 9)
- Water on Mars
- Fluidity
- The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 8)
- 42 referendums and and a resignation
- Newton's Wake: A Space Opera, by Ken MacLeod (books 2008, 7)
- Trying out Drivel
- Novelist Joanna Kavenna points out that I was wrong
- Identity and letdown in The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (books 2008, 6)
- The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany (Books 2008, 5)
- Floating
- Looking forward to hearing this
- British Summer Time, by Paul Cornell (Books 2008, 4)
- Time for writing crosses in booths, folks
- That 'reporting back from Eastercon' business
- Old Man's War, by John Scalzi (Books 2008, 3)
- Easter Weekend plans
- The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 2)
- On secondary school selection and the myth of choice
- Matter, by Iain M Banks (Books 2008, 1)
- Eee! PC.
- Messing around with the blog
- Human rights and human gains
- McQualifications
- A quote from Ken MacLeod with which to start the year
- Nutters, "Emigration, Death, Regret and Substance Abuse"
- Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)
- Cheerleader Saved, World Saved...
- Here's Tae Us
- The Scar, by China Miéville (Books 2007, 6)
- What Exactly Does it Mean to Book a Train Ticket, Anyway?
- A Bridge Not Far Enough
- The Return Of Some Futurists From The Past
- The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (Books 2007, 5)
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2007, 4)
- Rock and No Roll
- A quote from Charlie Brooker
- The only 'Transformer' I really like is an album by Lou Reed
- Ink, by Hal Duncan (Books 2007, 3)
- Twenty Years of Foolin' and They Put You in the Pub
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (Books 2007, 2)
- Potter Week
- Son of a Preacher Man
- Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, by Chris Salewicz (Books 2007, 1)
- The Last of the 2006 "Book Notes" Posts
- Guardian: "Straw signals rethink on ID cards"
- New Dawn Fades
- Ten Years in an Open-necked Shirt
- Diplomacy 101, and Cash for Stories
- Book Notes 25: The Family Trade, by Charles Stross
- Alias Doc and Martha
- Straight to Elgin Avenue
- Apologise, explain?
- The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance
- Not Before Time to the nth power
- Book Notes 24: Variable Star, by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson
- A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
- Homophobic Christians
- One Device to Do It All?
- Book Notes 23: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
- Dead Zen Master
- Book Notes 22: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshika Amano
- Book Notes 21: The Sandman Midnight Theatre, by Neil Gaiman and others
- ... And a Happy New Year to All My Reader
- Book Notes 20: The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
- Book Notes 19: Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, and others
- Book Notes 18: Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K Dick
- Book Notes 17: Vellum, by Hal Duncan
- Book Notes 16: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, by Catherine Webb
- Death-Penalty Blues
- Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute
- Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison
- On Security at Stansted
- Copyright Matters – Pass It On
- Burning Silver Discs for Gold
- Book Notes 13: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
- My "Big England" piece is up at Temperama
- This Is England
- Book Notes 12: The Last Temptation, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
- Book Notes 11: The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
- Hackers crack new biometric passports
- On Countries, Nationhood, and Being Invited to Write a Guest Spot
- Middle-East Madness
- Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie
- Book notes 9: Redemolished, by Alfred Bester
- Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Heat, streets and beats
- WordPress, this blog, and the Google cache
- Welcome to Torchwood
- Supporters
- Book Notes 7: Nova Scotia, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson
- The Water of Life
- It doesn't matter who wins...
- Eye Contact, or: Pay Attention to the Web Behind the Curtain.
- Pachyderm Prestidigitation
- Calling all Green Wing fans
- Who the hell do we vote for?
- Clarke and the convicts
- In which Martin meets annoyances at Waterloo
- Transport against london
- Cafe culture
- Sleepwalking into a police state
- Stanslaw Lem
- Book Notes 6: Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Reading matters
- TV roundup: what I've been watching recently
- Maybe that revolution won't be needed, after all
- Pray the future will never need...
- Pray the future will never need...
- Abolition
- Meet the new blog...
- The Many-Angled Pub
- Book Notes 5: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- A discussion of (possibly a rant about) ID
- Book Notes 4: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- That about wraps it up for freedom
- Drink, Sex and Elections
- Book Notes 3: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
- Book Notes 2: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Book Notes 1: A Dance to the Music of Time vol 1, by Anthony Powell
- The Rocky Pogue to Brixton
- Freedom Tickling
- Portable gaming/Santa question
- On the ethics of modifying blog posts
- Literary mind loss
- He was asking for it
- Resignation day
- Tears and Laugher in the Bookshop
- Post-exam comedown
- I claim this blog for Technorati...
- Today
- London bombs
- Software patents: dead in Europe
- 2012
- The afternoon after the morning after the night before
- Things can only get... different
- Digital death masks
- The Campaign Trail, 2005: the inevitable fear and loathing...
- Let's rock again
- Rounding up the year so far: still here
- Gonzo death song
- Disrespect the Authoritah!
- Writing, identity, and voting
- Post-teenage memories are pretty hard to beat, too
- Pack up Radio 1 and dismantle its transmitters...
- The time has come to rumble, to inject a bit of fun into politics
- On having my life back, and academia
- Wake-Up Call
- Metropolitan Drive-By
- More good US commentary
- [F]rom a low-key lounge groove to a scorched-earth crescendo
- Post-election injury report
- Voting decisions
- Lyrics quiz: answers
- Lyrics quiz by randomness
- Early-Days motion
- The post-scarcity tutorial
- Catch-up
- iSeries geekery
- Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
- Remember me, I used to live for music
- Clicking links is for wimps: real surfers type them in manually
- Warehouse: Posts and (no) Comments
- What's that Smell?
- The Whisky Post
- Blogiversary
- Microsoft's attempt to break email, and more
- Deepest Sender...
- Me Tired? Well Boo Hoo
- I thought it was in chamber six
- A Classical Education
- Pixies to reform?
- Things to do in Hackney when you're still alive
- Warren finally gets to sleep
- Moby gets it
- Go on Martin, do that thing where you make your username be the initials of songs
- What are we to do with Emusic?
- Open up
- Open Source rocks...
- It never sleeps, you know.
- Weapons of Mobile Inflation
- It ROCKS!
- With liver tea and just this for all [1]
- Why has Robert Johnson got methane on his mind?
- Home taping was good for music...
- What I did on my holidays (and off)
- You don't Meaney it!
- Non Serviam
- Do mention the war
- Is there an SF PM in the world? No.
- A (possibly) interesting blog for writers
- Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is?
- Some ranting nutter with a blog talking about the modern business world
- I'm not willing to give it up, even if I don't know what it is
- Memetic morphology, or: How I wrote a lyrics quiz
- Another tube of superglue, another quarter to get through
- The magazines are gone
- Put on a kilt, dye your hair green, and dance to 'Xerox Machine'
- Plenty more won't work so slow
- Tomorrow I'll be burnt as a witch for playing punk rock
- I will upload you, you can download me
- All I wanna do is...
- OS of all I survey
- It just works!
- Let me tell you how it will be...
- New Potter!!!
- Meme lag
- Does anyone know how much a carpenter should cost?
- Picture credits
- The thief of time, or: Where the hell did those two years go?
- The Death of a Hero
- Spoof Christian site attacks The Two Towers
- When do we forgive?
- Oh, the humiliation
- Burning up the Blogosphere
- A first entry