The Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) began with an update on Cabinet this morning. There was a presentation from Jack Straw on the ongoing work on the Bill of Rights; an update from John Hutton following on from his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq; an update from the Foreign Secretary on Zimbabwe and an update from the Prime Minister and the Chancellor on the economy, including information on meeti...

Ever since I first observed Robert Hughes parading about on the television, spouting mostly nonsense about mostly nonsense in his television series about modern art called The Shock of the New, I have had him tagged in my mind as a pompous windbag, orating in the manner of a right-wing curmudgeon, perhaps to try to appeal to stupid but genuinely right-wing curmudgeons who would otherwise automatic...

Chris Applegate’s life work is without purpose. Why? Because the Daily Mail is unspoofable. What satirical mind could have come up with this pile of nonsense for instance? Revolt! Robbed of their right to buy traditional light bulbs, millions are clearing shelves of last supplies Millions of Britons are finally waking up to the

3 months ago I gave up blogging because I viewed it as far too risky a past-time. Well, I've changed my mind. I'm just going to be a bit smarter with how, when and what I post. Hopefully this will hush those who thought I'd be censored and continue to believe I'd been "got at" - despite my own protestations. Utter Nonsense. There's a fresh layout, a twitter, lots of links ...

This week, the GLA released their Planning For A Better London report. We shall work way through it, with the requisite whisky and cigarettes, but in the meantime you can read it here, and, should you be gripped by inspiration, send your thoughts towards City Hall. Property Week and Building Design comment briefly. Members of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Stuff On Nonsense", url: "http://w...

Journey out of house and to work rather dull and uneventful as door opened no problem and was able to walk down stairs to ground floor. Walked past scaffolding I negotiated yesterday and did feel a small urge to scamper up and down it again. There is some scaffolding on the front of a house down the road from where I am now...I'm sure they would mind very much if I had a play because there are all...

Sobel is the author of the excellent Longitude book that I had read some time ago. I hadn't realised that her new work on Copernicus was originally planned to be a play but the play is now contained in the book. We were treated to a short extract from the play performed by two Scottish actors. Sobel herself is American. I'd never seen anything like this before at the Book Festival but it went

I should declare an interest: I work for a major global computer company. Mind you, I also disgree with all the surveillance state nonsense which Labour has been edging forward (especially the clerk of the local water works being able to read my email).I was alerted via Twitter to Paddy (Lord) Ashdown's response to James Graham's LDV article "Is Lord Ashdown the IT industry's patsy?"It is worth

Have commented on Nick Clegg's Comment is Free nonsense HERE. The idea of trusting Lib Dems to run a bath never mind a national budget is just to mind-blowing to contemplate. They've escaped without much scrutiny - so far - on expenses, but the proof of their fiscal incompetence comes in the fair shape of Liverpool where they took on a city with issues and took it so far into the red yea...

... so that I can blog from Birmingham on Monday. I wonder if it works: this is merely a test. However, if I have set it up right, I should be able to send updates from my iPhone, which would be excellent (and mean that I don't have to search for some expensive Wi-Fi... UPDATE: yes, it does work, although formatting might look a little odd. UPDATE 2: just as a swift reminder, I shall be taking...