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 →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.
Read more →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. There is no alternative?
Read more →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. 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 →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 →http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2012/12/why-whirlwind-gove-acting-so-fast
Read more →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.
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