Ben

Was at a great event last night – a debate between Science Minister Lord Drayson and Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame, at the Royal Institution. The Times Higher carried it as a webcast and it should be online for a while. It was great for several reasons:
Firstly, it was about  the quality of science [...]

The Tweety Song

I’m a big fan of Twitter. As you’ll have seen from the feed alongside, while I wasn’t writing the blog very often, I was still Tweeting. There’s been a lot of introspection about it recently, with blogposts like this one.
My gut feeling is that asking if the Commission should Twitter is as daft as asking [...]

Lazy

It’s perhaps a little lazy on my part, but here are links to a few interesting articles from the weekend, as we head into election week:
The Independent on why next week’s elections should be about Europe and not MPs’ expenses
Peter Preston in the Guardian gets all futuristic about a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
A reminder [...]

Just got round to reading the Mostra Opinion Corner on media coverage of the European parliament elections. It rings my bell on several levels.
Firstly, it’s about the European elections, something which obviously matters a lot to me. At a quite “macro” level, I believe that these are important elections and would hope that as many [...]

Rehumanize yourself

There’re always people who say that all this sitting behind computer screens to communicate is reducing our ability or willingness to intereact “in real life”. I’ve never agreed with that, and am being proved right this week and next.
Today I met and had a really interesting chat with Jon Worth, who writes a blog on [...]

Say What You Mean

I was at the Reporting Europe Awards last night (as was my Twitter pal @Nosemonkey though I didn’t know and so missed the opportunity to meet him in the flesh). Two of the six finalists were people I knew from the Brussels press room and in fact one of them was the eventual overall winner, [...]

The Mighty Quins

I had my first taste of season-ticket-holding Rugby League this weekend, when I headed to the Twickenham Stoop to watch Harlequins absolutely walk all over Warrington Wolves – 60-8 was the final score and 4 of those came from a try that was an individual run longer than the length of the pitch. Good stuff. [...]

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Nice to know I’m doing my bit for advancing the women’s cause, according to Rowenna Davies’ piece on “blogosphere or blokeosphere“. I also spent the morning getting the car MOTd, which involved some very tricky manouevring to back it out of the car port, which I managed to do all on my own, without a [...]

Posts are like buses…

and here’s the third of the day! Just wanted to post something I read on the BBC website, Stephen Fry talking about the web on the Analysis programme. I really liked the way he put this:
 This is an early thing I said about the internet at the time things like AOL were still huge. I [...]

Baby you can drive my car

There’s so much going on today, what with those terrible fires in Australia, Premier League managers being sacked left, right and centre and all the hoo-ha about bankers’ bonuses, that I suspect Neelie Kroes’ meeting with the roundtable to discuss the future of the car block exemption may have gone unnoticed. I wrote about this [...]