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by podesta • May 6, 2013 • 0 Comments
IMG_9981, originally uploaded by ed.podesta. Iris went down this on her own
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Riffing with Margaret Atwood and China Miéville | Waxings
by Ed • March 17, 2013 • 0 Comments
Riffing with Margaret Atwood and China Miéville | Waxings. What an amazing exchange is recorded here, and what a treat it would have been to have heard it first hand. My favourite part: Mieville: Even if so, it in no way implies that stories are good things. What if our nightmare existential condition…what if...
Read more →BBC News – Garden glory through a lens
by Ed • March 2, 2013 • 0 Comments
Gorgeous Photos of Nature. Oddly, the winner didn’t grab me as much as some of the others. BBC News – Garden glory through a lens.
Read more →EDL – English Disco Lovers NOT English Defence League – Home
by Ed • February 2, 2013 • 0 Comments
EDL – English Disco Lovers NOT English Defence League – Home.
Read more →BBC Radio 4 – Today, 30/01/2013, Heaney: Poetry was ‘entrancing’
by Ed • January 30, 2013 • 0 Comments
Entrancing interview with Simon Armitage and Seamus Heaney about how they first became aware of the power of poetry. I love Heany especially, but haven’t read much Armitage – will make a point of doing so now! BBC Radio 4 – Today, 30/01/2013, Heaney: Poetry was ‘entrancing’.
Read more →Britain halfway to triple-dip recession as manufacturing sector stalls | Business | guardian.co.uk
by Ed • January 26, 2013 • 0 Comments
Britain halfway to triple-dip recession as manufacturing sector stalls | Business | guardian.co.uk. There is no alternative?
Read more →BBC iPlayer – Cabin Pressure: Series 4: Vaduz
by Ed • January 24, 2013 • 0 Comments
BBC iPlayer – Cabin Pressure: Series 4: Vaduz. Got to love Cabin Pressure
Read more →BBC News – A-level plans challenged by school and university heads
by Ed • January 23, 2013 • 0 Comments
BBC News – A-level plans challenged by school and university heads. Not Gove’s finest hour – I would love to know where he gets these ideas from. They can’t just be from the back of an envelope, or emerging from his dim memories of the plush private sixth-form he attended, can they?
Read more →Jessops in administration
by Ed • January 9, 2013 • 0 Comments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20958659 I bought my cameras from them, as I valued the advice, and a good friend used to work there. However, I got my lenses and my memory cards online, so I guess I was part of the problem too.
Read more →Gove and irreversibility
by Ed • December 8, 2012 • 0 Comments
http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2012/12/why-whirlwind-gove-acting-so-fast
Read more →Photography Slide Shows
by Ed • November 14, 2012 • 0 Comments
Couple of lovely slideshows caught my interest lately: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20304829 and this amazing one on Henri Cartier-Bresson. In particular I love the Saul Leiter one in a cafe in Paris. This photo in turn led me to this great photo blog and a larger version of the Leiter picture.
Read more →BBC News – GCSE grade changes ‘affected 10,000 students’
by Ed • August 25, 2012 • 0 Comments
BBC News – GCSE grade changes ‘affected 10,000 students’. My dad always says you should go for the ‘cock-up’ explanation, rather than the conspiracy. However, to me this looks increasingly like a plan to de-value the state – school brand, finish off the process of making all schools into ‘academies’, and thereby move along...
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