There’s a piece on Crooked Timber about the Defense of Marriage Act in the USA. The key is: It denies benefits to legally recognized same-sex spouses of federal employees. What is amazing to me about this is that the Government is saying that states can do what they want, but bigotry will be alive and [...]
I’ve just been looking at Webcameron, the new website from the Conservative Party bringing lots of videos of David Cameron, leader of the Party, to an internet near you. I’d heard about it, of course, but hadn’t thought much of it until a Labour MP made a (really bad) spoof and put it on YouTube. [...]
At the risk of revisiting the horror that was my English A Level, I thought I’d write a few words about The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I finished reading this a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve not got a new book on the go, so it’s been bouncing around my head a bit. [...]
Interestingly, I’ve just been put off commenting on the blog of a blog consultant because the comment process was too difficult to bother with. I decided to write about it here instead. Call me contrary if you will. Check this out: Chocolate and Vodka :: Post Comment I read Suw’s blog fairly regularly and think [...]