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A LONDON WEEKEND TERRORVISION COLOUR PRODUCTION

Friday, 29 July 2005 8:13 P GMT+01
It was as I talked to my father last week - a man who, I think it's fair to say, is of another generation entirely - that I suddenly realized that the recent London bombings are forcing a lot of liberal people to reconsider the boundaries of their id
Category: LIFE
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WHAT A MOMENTOUS DAY

Thursday, 28 July 2005 7:03 P GMT+01
No, nothing to do with the fact that I counted 22 police officers on London’s streets during a 30-minute bus ride home this evening.  Far from being the “largest ever deployment of officers” (you’ll regularly come across 30 in Whitehall on r
Category: SHAMELESS MEDIA WHORING

FIVE SHORT STORIES ABOUT IDIOTS IN MUSIC TODAY

Wednesday, 27 July 2005 9:44 P GMT+01
1: THE ROCK GROUP & THE TRADEMARKMegadeth singer David Mustaine has filed a legal action in Los Angeles accusing the group’s former bassist David Ellefson of using the group's name without his permission. Mustaine claims an advert Ellefson made
Category: MUSIC
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SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PUNSLINGER!

Saturday, 23 July 2005 5:12 P GMT+01
With a blog title like that, it’s hardly surprising no-one in television wants my work.Anyway, once again, my plans to attend some of the great comedy on the Edinburgh Fringe have been thwarted by abject poverty.  Apparently, I may get 74p from th
Category: COMEDY

HERE'S WHY I DID NOT GO INTO...OH, WAIT, I AM AT WORK

Friday, 22 July 2005 1:39 P GMT+01
So the traffic started moving again and some buses started appearing over the crest of Vauxhall Bridge.  Better still, the tube started running again just as I left home, so I found myself at my desk about half an hour ago.Nothing more to add really
Category: COMEDY LIFE

HERE'S WHY I DID NOT GO INTO WORK TODAY

Friday, 22 July 2005 11:36 A GMT+01
Left home for work this morning, waited at a bus stop for buses that never materialized, went to the tube station to find it closed, so went back home and discovered what's been going on at Stockwell and Vauxhall this morning.  A little too close fo
Category: LIFE

NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED NOT AS SHORTLY AS WE WOULD LIKE

Friday, 22 July 2005 12:27 A GMT+01
I shall get back on track with this blog some day, even if it kills me.It seems that several hundred people in London this evening can consider themselves very lucky to be alive.  The police have claimed that the reason today’s four bombs did not
Category: COMEDY LIFE
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I HOPE I MAKE IT HOME IN TIME FOR EXTRAS...

Thursday, 21 July 2005 8:00 P GMT+01
...Particularly when Ricky Gervais has been such a shameless media whore over the last 48 hours.Thursdays are obviously becoming the stay at home days for Londoners.  Heck, if these things are going to happen every fortnight on a Thursday, somebody
Category: LIFE

UPDATE

Thursday, 21 July 2005 4:32 P GMT+01
OK.  Now the cricket's pissing us right off...
Category: LIFE SPORT

AN UPDATE FROM THE FRONTLINE

Thursday, 21 July 2005 3:30 P GMT+01
Well, now that the current situation in London has officially progressed from a "serious incident" to "chaos", I thought you'd all like to know what we're up to here in sunny Marylebone.  We're working.  We're drinking tea.  We
Category: LIFE

...AND SO, IT BEGINS AGAIN

Thursday, 21 July 2005 2:53 P GMT+01
I'm OK, hope you're all OK too.  What can I say that I haven't said already?  It's a right fucking pain, and proves nothing.  Business as usual here, friends, business as usual...
Category: LIFE

TODAY'S PAPERS AND MAIL

Thursday, 21 July 2005 8:40 A GMT+01
I just read the headline "Suspect Database to Spot Extremists".  Somebody had better tell Charles Clarke that we;ve got enough suspect databases already, thanks to his government, and it's about time we had one that worked.It's also great
Category: LIFE

SPIKED!

Wednesday, 20 July 2005 9:48 P GMT+01
I have no problem with The Liar's "Buddhist fundamentalist" piece being spiked - having got to know the Ed very well over the last three or four years, I know he wouldn't have done so without weighing up the relative risks for his increa
Category: COMEDY
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ANSWERS ON A BRICK THROWN THROUGH THE WINDOW, PLEASE

Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:52 A GMT+01
Those of you who read The Liar from time to time might want to visit www.theliar.co.uk and read the story headlined "Buddhist Fundamentalists Comfort Londoners" as soon as possible.  One reader did and decided to e-mail the editor with th
Category: SHAMELESS MEDIA WHORING

IS THAT A CRYSTAL BALL IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU JUST PLEASED TO SEE ME?

Tuesday, 19 July 2005 8:01 P GMT+01
It hardly seems like a year since I correctly predicted Franz Ferdinand as the winners of the Mercury Music Prize (OK, I actually said it would be them or Snow Patrol).  As you can imagine, I eagerly awaited today’s announcement of the 2005 nomine
Category: MUSIC

FACT ME 'TIL I FART

Monday, 18 July 2005 12:43 P GMT+01
Given that today marks the 36th anniversary of my entrance to this world (or, if you prefer, the 36th anniversary of the rest of the world having me forced upon them), I thought I’d share 36 salient facts about myself with you all.  It’s an edit
Category: TAGGED!
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OUR BOOMS ARE BIGGER THAN YOUR BANGS

Saturday, 16 July 2005 8:35 P GMT+01
What’s happened to Oliver Stone?The man took Talk Radio and made it one of the most intense, claustrophobic movies of all time, for Heaven’s sake.  He rewrote both the Vietnam war and the assassination of JFK, and even suggested that Jim Morriso
Category: LIFE
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IT'S OH SO QUIET

Thursday, 14 July 2005 10:25 P GMT+01
You’ll all have heard by now that today’s two-minute silence in London passed off peacefully.Just before noon, people were frog-marched into the streets by the kind of office managers who think third world debt can be solved by keeping the same C
Category: LIFE
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A WEEK ON AND STILL NONE THE WISER

Thursday, 14 July 2005 8:51 A GMT+01
Exactly a week on from the London bombings and developments have taken an ironic twist.The speculation that the route 30 bus was not one of the intended targets seems to have become fact, but not for the reasons any of us had previously imagined.  I
Category: LIFE

IT AIN'T OVER 'TIL IT'S OVER

Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:03 A GMT+01
I know I said I’d be winding up the comments on the London bombings - but that was before the British media spent most of its Tuesday night getting its knickers in a twist, as can clearly be evidenced by a glance at the front pages of most of this
Category: LIFE
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WE GET BLOWN UP, WE GET UP AGAIN, YOU AIN’T EVER GONNA ETC. ETC. ETC.

Tuesday, 12 July 2005 9:36 P GMT+01
OK, it looks like I’ll have to start blogging about something other than the situation in London, seeing as the city seems to have slipped fully back into its old habits for the time being.  Hell, the black ribbon’s even disappeared from Google
Category: LIFE
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UPDATE FROM FORTRESS LONDON

Monday, 11 July 2005 7:48 P GMT+01
You’ll all be pleased to hear that life is slowly returning back to normal again in our nation’s capital.The rolling news coverage has finally disappeared to be replaced by such heart-wrenching stories as Granny, Stop Embarrassing the Family with
Category: LIFE
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DICKS OF THE WEEK

Sunday, 10 July 2005 4:08 P GMT+01
Would somebody tell me, who the hell is Omarion?On Thursday, just over 12 hours after the explosions in London, esteemed press agency Reuters ran with a statement, purporting to be from his publicists.  It stated that Omarion was in London during th
Category: MUSIC
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STILL HERE

Friday, 8 July 2005 11:22 P GMT+01
Thought you would like a snapshot of how things have been in the city today.I would estimate that central <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London has been about 60-70% as busy as it normally would be on a Friday.  The level of traffic ha
Category: LIFE
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ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH

Friday, 8 July 2005 8:51 A GMT+01
So I'm off to work today with the recriminations that have already started ringing in my ears.Why did security services seemingly take their foot off the pedal, given the fact that we have had several very large concerts, an Olympic celebration and t
Category: LIFE

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