Posted on May 9, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
A quick post-election playlist for you… Common People by Pulp is from Different Class, the best political album of the 90s. This is the live version from Glastonbury in 1995 – a gig I was lucky enough to be at, and still remember with awe fifteen years later. Hard Times Of Old England Retold by [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Sound the call for freedom boys, and sound it far and wide, March along to victory, for God is on our side, While the voice of nature thunders o’er the rising tide: “God gave the land to the people.” The land, the land, ‘Twas God who made the land, The land, the land, The ground [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Before I start writing this, I just want to point everyone in the direction of the comments to my Joe The Barbarian post. There’s some fantastic stuff there, and I’m just sorry I’ve not been online enough to engage in that discussion more. It’s comment threads like that that make the ridiculous amount of time [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Well, that was unexpected… I never realised Norfolk Blogger was such a popular blog, but thanks almost exclusively to his link to my iPad post I got a thousand more visitors than usual on Thursday… I’ll be doing one of the book club posts later tonight, and another tomorrow, (and replacing the comics post I [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
As those of you who don’t pay attention to these things won’t know, the Home Secretary, Alan “I used to have a chance of being the next Labour leader, you know” Johnson, recently sacked David Nutt, the government’s scientific advisor on drugs policy, because he was saying things like “Ecstasy isn’t the most dangerous thing [...]
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Posted on September 20, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
David Cameron argues in today’s Observer that as far as ‘progressive’ (shudder) policies go, there is little distance between the Lib Dems and the Tories, and we should be working together. His case is very superficially convincing – until you remember their slogan from the last election, If You Want A Nigger For Your Neighbour, [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
I was only going to linkblog today, but I’m going to have to push on with these… I’ve said for a while that were this series of posts ever to be complete, it would actually take the form of two full books – one non-fiction series of essays, and one gigantic fanfic epic crossover novel. [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
This is another of the posts that several people said they’d be interested in. Those of you who aren’t, blame those people. This is pitched at the most non-technical of people, so my apologies if this feels patronising to some of you… Before I start, I’d better explain what GNU/Linux is, since many people won’t [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
I think my friend Dave has put it best… As far as I can see there has been no substantive change in policy here. Originally, it was going to be compulsory to go on the ID database when you applied for or renewed a passport, but otherwise ‘voluntary’, at least at first, but you’d definitely [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
So now, we in Manchester are apparently going to be the first people ‘allowed’ to apply to pay £60 for ID cards. Lucky, lucky, lucky us. Is this like that time when we were allowed to be the first people to not have the right to speak to a duty solicitor? I know that was [...]
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