Once Parliament is Prorogued Members of Parliament still receive their salaries but may not campaign during the election period as ‘Joanna Blogs MP’, indeed they have to drop the ‘MP’ for the…
One of my favourite shows this autumn / fall season has been the second outing of Being Erica from CBC. Starring Erin Karpluk it has been a voyage of discovery as we watched Erica come to…
This is going to be one of those blog posts where you first ponder whether you should actually make such a post on your ‘real name’ blog, or whether you should place it on one of the pseudonymous…
Earlier this evening I watched a powerful drama on Channel 4. The Execution of Gary Glitter was — in its final outcome — expected from the very name of the programme. A superbly made film, with an…
“It seems that Mr Wilson has clearly never met any real scientists. However, he does appear to possess a great deal of straw from which he is able to fashion crude simulacra of them.” Article…
No, not the ones which are ever-so-useful to many people on the television or at the opera, but the one on this blog. Initially I set it here to Mostly Harmless, a term used by some friends many…
This morning I saw a large fly trying to escape my room here. As all the windows were locked and it would be a complex route to find a way out for a fly then I, without any real forethought, squashed…
