Peace, Love and Humus (A Middle Eastern Memoir) - Part One |
Ive just returned from the Middle East well, a couple of days ago, anyway and from an experience that I can only call life-affirming. It was a pretty unlikely trip, and seemed to bemuse most peo...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:13:00 GMT |
Radiohead, Kid A, bravery, and minds falling open |
I've mentioned before that I'm in a band. But there are bands and there are bands - like Radiohead. They're an act as far outside my musical comfort zone as I can imagine, and that's why I love them.F...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:55:00 GMT |
Israel-Iran: Back to the Drawing Board? |
I am no foreign policy expert. My foreign policy outlook, in fact, really extends only to thanking my lucky stars every few weeks that I am a citizen of a wealthy Western European democracy, where we ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:53:00 GMT |
What Makes Barack a Dull Boy? |
Is Barack Obama boring?More to the point, is he allowed to be anything but?It's been really interesting to watch Barack Obama's rise to the cusp of the US presidency, for a range of reasons. Chief amo...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:51:00 GMT |
RACISM! (BOO!!) |
Boo! Yes, racism! Lookie there, I said it!
RACISM. Yes, how about that for an attention-grabbing blog headline. I don't normally write about racism, let alone talk about it - racism is, if you'll par...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:00 GMT |
Roger Robinson (Part Two), Writer’s Block and Courage |
Sigh. I own a useless computer. My computer crashed a few moments ago, after I’d typed a few paragraphs of a blog - it’s amazing how a small moment like that can knock the creative rhythm ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:31:00 GMT |
Roger Robinson (Part One), Ego and Success |
This is the first of two blogs involving Roger Robinson - that is, if I’m not too lazy to write the second one.
Yes, there is actually a guy with a name as cool as Roger Robinson.&nb...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:22:00 GMT |
Why I Write (PiP vs George Orwell, and the FREE-P) |
George Orwell wrote the famous essay, "Why I Write"; if you’ve not been lucky enough to read it, you can see a copy of it here:
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw
It probably ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:51:00 GMT |
Interview with Channel 4, 4Talent |
Hi all,
If you have a moment, I did an interview a while back with Channel 4.com for their 4Talent section - if you fancy having a look, here’s the link:
http://www.channel4.com/4talent/feature....
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:10:00 GMT |
PiP-Hop, you don’t stop |
Hi, Musa here (occasional PiP blog author). A funny thing happened today: I realised how much I hated hip-hop culture. So much that it had made me hate hip-hop. So much that on ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:18:00 GMT |
