FA apologises for DVD ‘oversight’
Only at the FA could a DVD be produced of the greatest ever England players – and they neglect to pick a single black player. FA apologises for DVD ‘oversight’
Purchases
Got paid today and so a pretty good haul was the order of the day in Waterstone’s: The Master – Colm Toibin The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Marakami Love, Sex & Tragedy – Simon Goldhill The Remains of the Day – Kazuro Ishiguro Amsterdam – Ian McEwan So Now Who Do We Vote For? … Keep reading
Boris Gagged
According to the Boris Blog, Mr Johnson’s regular column has been dropped from today’s Torygraph in favour of a rather dull piece by Michael Howard trying to justify his dodgy immigration policy, reproduced here in all its swivel-eyed glory because of the Torygraph’s stinky registration requirements (itself an appalling encroachment on the rights of browsers…): … Keep reading
More Murakami
The Guardian have en extract from Murakami’s latest book, Kafka on the Shore.
The Rotters’ Club
The first episode of The Rotters’ Club was on BBC2 last night and it was, as I suspected, a disappointment. ono No Komachi and amner discuss it on Palimpsest here – I’ll add my thoughts from here to there when I get home – still problems with posting to Palimpsest at work, worse luck. I … Keep reading