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There are only about two or three politics and news/current affairs programmes and that are allowed to be self-referential. They are: PM a...

I've had my nose to the grindstone over the last few days, and so had to put blogging on the backburner. I was working on a story for t...

Some are doubledecker, some are not. This is apparently a statement which objectifies women. The sensibilities of my friend (female) were r...

Indeed. The Bush government apparently laid plans to bomb Al-Jazeera during the Iraq conflict. The government is now brandishing the axe t...

Tafa Balogun has just been convicted . He was given only a six month sentence which is very lenient. What the sentence does though is presen...

I woke up to Martha Kearney and Woman's Hour on Friday. She'd secured an exclusive interview with Liberia and Africa's first f...

I was talking to a fellow at the World Service's Analysis this afternoon, trying to flog my story on Governor Alamieyesiegha . It'...

The Guardian interview went well. Over time, I've learnt that one's feelings in the aftermath of an interview don't necessarily ...

Tomorrow is the initial day of reckoning, before a second day of reckoning comes. The interview I have at The Guardian is with someone in ...

I remember my first ballet because it was the ENB 's Sleeping Beauty on Friday at the New Theatre, Oxford. I went to the ballet for tw...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa , the Nigerian playwright and human/environmental rights activist. Last nig...

Which roughly translates as "he joked" in French. It's a bit late to tell the people at the Guardian that I was just joking ab...

In a few hours, Liberians vote for a president to take over from the transitional government which ended years of political unrest and civil...

That is the tagline for In Her Shoes... Were they trying to imitate Mark Antony from Julius Caesar? Shakespeare this is not. I've just s...

I've just witnessed the PM talk about football on Football Focus on BBC1. He talked about his cult team and it included Malbranque and D...

I've just been watching the Question Time debate between the two Davids bidding to become the next leader of HM Opposition aka the Tory ...

I've just finished watching the Culture Show on BBC2. They had a piece about UK hip-hop which looked oddly familiar. As soon as they tra...

Every one seems to have a blog. Why? I can't even post comments on people's blogs without being signed up to a blogger thingy myself...