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Porthmeor Beach, St. Ives

Ten years ago, a spunky young newsletter called Need To Know was reporting the launch of Mac OS 8, the Unixy future of the Mac (BeOS, not Steve Jobs), a new program called Alexa that allowed you to annotate websites, and Netscape shares dropped 18%. Wish I’d bought Apple

I know it’s been said before, but the bit of Brum behind the ICC is really a spectacular bit of regeneration. Not always perfect, but when you consider what was there before…

A German firm is renting out photogenic youths to protest organisations, to swell the numbers at their marches and demonstrations. One critic quoted in the

The Department for Work and Pensions are getting a bit disaffected, it seems.

940th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, and I’m in Battle for a huge re-enactment. It’s very spectacular, though of course the result is never in doubt. Even more spectacular, and a lot less organised, is the melee of kids with wooden swords charging around while their parents

A surprising sight walking down to Southwark tube the other day. A quick shot on my phone in the rain doesn’t really do it justice, but underneath the railway viaduct is the huge (original?) sign for Blackfriars station – a small station on the London Bridge – Charing Cross line that

A strange mix of social signals on my train today. A rather well- dressed young woman sat down opposite me, plonked a copy of Crime and Punishment on the table, and then started devouring Best magazine, featuring a lose 5 lb in 5 days superdiet, and more Jordan baby news

Spotted on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex – Hudson’s soap is for the people, unlike those other soaps that are for the Establishment, for the Church or perhaps for Aston Villa. Download img_1954.JPG