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Happy New Year

Tim Hall — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 10:56:09 +0000

Happy 2017 to all our readers. Let’s hope it’s not quite as dark as 2016 was.

Remember

Tim Hall — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:37:53 +0000

As we remember the fallen on the anniversary of the end of World War One, the best memorial is to avoid sleepwalking into another entirely avoidable global war.

“Every hour that Corbyn does not resign means another hour of lost opportunity”

Tim Hall — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 12:37:42 +0000

Oh dear. Labour’s candidate for the Richmond by-election has been deleting tweets from a few months back calling on Jeremy Corbyn to resign as leader. Oops.

Oasis, the gift that keeps on giving.

Tim Hall — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:54:00 +0000

Oasis snubbed Trainspotting soundtrack thinking film ‘was about trainspotters’. Yes, I know it’s just a throwaway filler piece in The Guardian. But you’ve got to laugh.

Requires Trump

Tim Hall — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:58:29 +0000

There are a lot of parallels between the Trump Tapes and The Mixon Report on Requires Hate. Both had the effect of removing plausible deniability from those who had been supporting and encouraging an obvious malevolent sociopath.

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

Tim Hall — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:32:17 +0000

The hilarious How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 reads like an Abbott and Costello sketch. Software development should not be like this.

Seasons of the Sun

Tim Hall — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:41:18 +0000

Those who moan that “There’s no good music any more” forget that in their “golden age” you wouldn’t hear a note of the good stuff on TV or daytime radio. When Yes and King Crimson were putting out “Relayer” and “Red”, Radio One was full of dreck like “Seasons in the Sun”. That was the Ed Sheeran of 1974.

The Oliver Dawson Bakeoff

Tim Hall — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:27:37 +0000

The ongoing Great British Bake Off meltdown makes it look as though Channel 4 are going to end up with the reality TV equivalent of The Oliver Dawson Saxon.

Why I despair

Tim Hall — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:13:05 +0000

So we have a government in disarray because it can’t reconcile the ill-informed vote from a recklessly misjudged referendum with economic reality. Meanwhile the leader of the opposition is more interested in declaring that after-work drinks are sexist. You wonder why I despair…

Thought for the Day

Tim Hall — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:07:09 +0000

X Factor is the musical equivalent of the burning of the library of Alexandria.