David Kay, the recently resigned head of the US weapons inspections team in Iraq went in front of a Senate hearing yesterday.
Mr Kay blamed a lack of human agents inside Iraq and inadequate intelligence that Iraq had chemical or biological weapons stockpiles. Source: The Guardian.
Can we take this to mean that the UN should have [...]

Ah, that would be the Hutton report.

Further proof that American comedy is in a bit of a hole right now. The last “all new” episode of Friends I saw was five minutes of new jokes and a long trawl through the archives. Will & Grace is poor and there are plenty more where that came from. The only worthwhile US comedy [...]

I’m not allowed to get a job right now. So with all this wonderful free time I’ve been trying to do something worthwhile. A bunch of people I know quite fancy having their own blog, but don’t think they’ve got enough to write about. Well, having thought for a while, I’ve made a group blog, [...]

OK, I promised. I’ll deliver.
A great director once said (and I’m paraphrasing here) “All I’ve ever done is re-make the same film over and over.” I can’t remember who the director was, and I can’t look it up because all my film books are back in England. But trust me on this one. He was [...]

These people have too much time on their hands. Scroll down to the “Weird Scoreboards” part of the article for walruses and turbots.
Courtney called in sick today so we can go sledging, or sledding, or tobogganing, or whatever you want to call it. Maybe we’ll build a snowman too.

You are Jarvis Cocker from Pulp.“I think people who think they’re sexy havegot problems.”
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I am Jarvis from Pulp. It must be all that time I’ve spent with my cheeks exposed.

Lovely little article on the Guardian website. More reasons to despise mainstream TV and tabloid journalism, if you ever needed any.

Two weeks in and already we’re settling into familiar routines. I’ve noticed that Courtney and I only really nag each other about two things (one each), apart from TV. I complain about her eating habits; without me around to cook for her she’d eat nothing but toast and takeaway. On the other hand she is [...]

This snow thing is still a novelty. It stopped snowing in the early hours of the morning and now the light breeze is knocking powdery flurries from the branches of the trees. It’s distractingly pretty, and if it weren’t below freezing outside I’d be wandering around gawping at it all.
Courtney and I saw the excellent [...]