Words Dept.: archive

According to a tweet by Charlie Brooker, Adam Curtis’ new documentary series is going to be called All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. I don’t know what it means but Brooker is a very credible source and the title sounds very Curtis-like. The title is the same as a poem by Richard Brautigan, [...]

I live in the Cale Green area of Stockport. Until recently we had three Liberal Democrat councillors. Then in February, two of them – Roy Driver and David White – left the LibDems to stand under the banner of “Independent Left”. These are the facts. Imagine my surprise, then, when I received a leaflet today from [...]

There’s nothing especially unusual about the Daily Express producing an entirely confusing and off-beam front-page. This, after all, is the paper that splashed with Princess Diana for the best part of a decade after she died. However, I couldn’t help noticing this morning’s effort, which manages to juggle tragedy, absurdity, bad taste and utter irrelevance [...]