BV|Chess

Not as much rewriting needed this time, and that means I get a byline to myself, thanks to my editor’s kindness! It has been a good productive week, having two published articles. But I am sure I won’t always be writing about fun things like games and chess so I may well have to get [...]

The university of no grass

The university of no grass
15th June, 2007
It has come to my attention that the London School of Economics and Political Science may be unique in that it is the only university in the UK with no grass on campus, anywhere. I do not mean to say that patches of weeds are unable to settle in [...]

Interlude

I have been busy lately with a fresh round of applications to extract myself from my job, which I have been doing for barely seven weeks. I have not written a proper journal entry for a long time, but I hope to post a new essay fairly soon. The new piece has been badly neglected [...]

Last leg

I don’t think I am the right kind of person to get into a debate about football but nevermind. I have always imagined that one must be slightly overweight and half drunk to command the sort of presence needed to get one’s point across in a noisy pub-like environment. Nevertheless, here is what I have [...]

Beautiful fools

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Every time I remember that line from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”, it leaves me in a deathly cold. It is said in response to learning that a newborn is a girl, by [...]

My Diary

Having gone 4 not out so far in my blog innings, I am starting to get a bit more desperate for ideas so that I can maintain my record of updating at least once a day. Cue the ever reliable backup filler: the raison d’étre episode! Tonight, I am going to deconstruct the whole concept [...]

Pr0n

Last night the ITV evening news carried “violent video games” as their main story. I later found out that earlier on the same day, Richard and Judy, national opinion makers, had a similar discussion on violence and video games on their afternoon show. Enough. I will not dignify ITV or Richard and Judy by discussing [...]