They’ve scarcely refurbished Euston, just filled every square foot with shops and restaurants. For good or bad, there was almost no retail in the original building…
The decline of Euston is fascinating because I’m old enough to remember it being a beacon of clean, spacious modernity, particularly compared to the dumps that Kings Cross and St Pancras were…
The thin purple line from 1991 to 2010 is me…
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Insufficient clothes hangers or fire risk…
Home detectives - this is an awful story for Ninja Tune's DJ Food - he'd simply like to get his stolen property back from the auction house John Pye Auctions- read this in full. How on earth can this be legal? There's even a rare tape of mine in there too🥹 www.djfood.org/the-tale-of-...
OK, so here’s a little story I’d like to tell as it’s led to some frustration over recent months. Readers of this blog will be very familiar with my weekly Mixcloud Select posts each Friday where I di...
I’m at 1 with a bullet… no notes but you should have seen the Press Offices faces when they found out about it… web.archive.org/web/20090324...
At 2… Percy the Potato… sadly Percy himself, a hollowed out Mr. Man with his flesh replaced with potato skin who floated across the screen courtesy of some experimental Flash, has been lost entirely… webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200307...
Apols, long train journey home. Could I propose a ‘top 3 Defra websites now lost to history’ talk dya think…? At 3… Marine Consents… webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200401...
We had a ‘there’s a dead parrot at Luton Airport’ once, which felt like not one but two 70s comedy phrases rising from the grave…